OK, I finally updated my blog. So take the extra step and click past Bloglines/Google Reader to take a look at my hard work. It’s about 90% finished. I want to work on a few behind the scenes features over the next week. When I’m all done, I’ll write about my redesign process. It’s been quite the adventure.

Sadly it doesn’t take much to distract me from my current project at hand to a new more interesting project. The spiderweb quilt block was no exception. When I was suppose to be working on my Coraline Box, I made four spiderweb blocks. I roughly followed the directions from Quiltville. Since foundation piecing really isn’t my preferred piecing method, I made templates for the blocks. I cut the triangle pieces from a 5.5″ strip of [...]

This week I received Box #27 in the Coraline Mystery Box Swap. The box was topped off with delicious taffy. Very cool box with a very cool number Inside I found a several items: a round ball, an old skeleton key (once again very cool), a little cross-stitch sample, and the remains of the ring. Unfortunately the ring broke in transit. I’m gong to try to glue it back together. I can’t fail to mention [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I signed up for a Coraline Box swap hosted by My Little Mochi. Despite the popularity of swaps in blogland, I’ve never participated in one prior to this swap. It’s been a good learning experience. Over the past two weeks, I’ve been working away at creating little Coraline like objects. Tomorrow is the shipping deadline, which means I finished my project today. Tomorrow Box #14 will be on its way [...]

After posting several work-in-progress pictures of my Spring table runner, I’m happy to report that it’s done. In fact it’s been on my table for about a week. I like it. Now that the Spring table runner is complete, I need to finish the Summer table runner. As you can see, I didn’t use much imagination here. Aside from fabric choices, it’s identical to the Spring table runner. However I will change things up a [...]

Spring weather always catches me by surprise. One day I ride my bike to work and capture pictures like the one below that give me hope for beautiful weather. Then I wake up the next morning to a bit of snow fall. I captured this picture while waiting for the bus, no bike on that day.