As I mentioned before, I received Amy Butler’s In Stitches book for Christmas.  Of course, I have big plans to make just about everything in the book. Yet for the past three months, I’ve just looked at the pretty pictures. A couple of weeks ago, I was inspired by this beautiful fabric to actually make something.   Thus this cute apron. I love it! I believe I only made one modification to the pattern. I [...]

For Christmas, a quilter in my quilt group gave everybody in the group a Spring Fling charm pack. Since I received the bright colored fabric in the dead of winter, I was excited to work with it. First I had to decide what to make. My criteria? The finished object needed to have a purpose, I needed to try a new block/technique, and I needed to minimize buying additional fabric for the project. The result is a [...]

Under normal circumstances, I plan way too way weekend activities. I want to accomplish so much. Reading blogs doesn’t help. I see other creative people up to creative things. Before I’m inspired to make my own. Well I contained myself this weekend. I started by NOT going to the store Friday night after work. Often I’ll go to the craft or home improvement store before I pick up Ross from his job. Instead I went [...]

Since I posted on Monday, I’ve spent too much time tweaking the code on that post. After totally messing up the flow of the page, I’m back where I started. The phrase “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.” should be my motto. I guess I learn the hard way. (sigh) Tweaking the code gave my ample time to read that list of books. I really like books. It is a form of escape to [...]

I actually spent the weekend busy making stuff. Yet I don’t have good pictures to show. They’ll come in a few days. So instead, I’ll going to use this meme that I saw on Make it Snappy. This year hasn’t been the best for reading. I started the year with ambitious reading goals. Yet I’ve accomplishing very little. I’ve even struggled reading my monthly book club book. In an attempt to make myself feel better, I’ll [...]