Earlier this year I made this cute little quilt for Dear Stella. It’s called “Marbles”, and it’s from the book “Simply Fat Quarters” by “It’s Sew Emma” — a very quick and easy quilt to make up, and it showcases their Honeycrisp prints so well. My favorite piece in this collection is the Owl print, […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...The Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild in Kirksville, MO, had our 28th Annual Show a couple weeks ago. If you were there, then you were treated to a wonderful display of quilts. If you weren’t, then you missed out, but I’m here to give you a tour of some of it! It’s always a fun […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...On February 2nd, I posted the following story on my Facebook page: “As My Cowboy laid down to go to sleep last night, he leaned over and . . . instead of whispering ‘Good night — sweet dreams’ like usual, he says, ‘Don’t you fret, Mildred. I’ve got us a nice romantical Valentine’s date all […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...My friend, René, over at René Creates, has released her first pattern — woohoo! And she’s been having a Blog Hop to celebrate. And today is my turn to show you my Peace Quilt. When René asked for testers, I willingly volunteered. I had the perfect bunch of fabric scraps I wanted to use! And […]
20 Comments. Continue Reading...Do you remember back in 1999 when every quilter you knew was busy making a millennium quilt? Perhaps you were one of them? Well, I was one of those quilters. I had a grand idea for my millennium quilt, and as usual, I went all gung-ho at first, then it joined my other UFOs as […]
22 Comments. Continue Reading...I posted earlier about the Hourglasses quilt that my Aunt Mary made. Well, I loved it so much that I felt the urge to recreate it in today’s modern fabrics, so I did that very thing, and I’ve made it into a free tutorial that is now available HERE. Here’s my version: I used the […]
6 Comments. Continue Reading...I recently had the honor of finishing up another quilt for my Great-Aunt Wanda. About three years ago, she gave me a quilt top that had been made by her sister, Mary. If I ever met Mary, I don’t remember it, because she passed away years ago, and Aunt Wanda was in possession of this […]
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