Baby season is in full swing, and I’m way behind on gifts. After weighing available time against demand, I decided that I needed something easier than quilts, thus the bibs. So after two weeks on sewing here and there, this is what I have: Only six bibs are complete. I need to sew up 8 more. Really sewing them up is the easy part. Selecting fabrics is the real challenge. I decided that I needed [...]

Sooner after I started quilting, I realized that quilting magazines were a great source of inspiration. First I subscribe to Quiltmaker. At the time, it was the only magazine that consistently supply quilting designs to go along with the actual quilt pattern. After two years or so, quilting designs aside, Quiltmaker just didn’t do it for me. I deemed every new issue boring. Time to move on. I moved on to Fons and Porter. Fons [...]

Did you take a close look at that picture? Did you look beyond the wild grass? If you did, you can see a bulbed flower making its way into the world. I’m pretty excited. When we bought the house last Fall, I had no idea that we had any bulbed plants. I wanted to plant some in the front yard, but I didn’t get around to it. Now I have to patiently wait for them [...]