After my initial experience with my Union Jack pillow, I made a template for the diagonal crosses. It was ugly and all wrong, which didn’t bother me a bit. I figured out what I did wrong and fixed it for the final creation. I couldn’t be happier with the end product. I believe the pillow will live in our living room, allowing me to enjoy it on a regular basis. I have been thinking about [...]

Have you noticed the surge in Union Jack pillows and quilt blocks? 1. union jack 2, 2. ringo pie union jack, 3. Union Jack, 4. union jack quilt…victory garden, 5. Mug Rug Top #1, 6. UJ top completed Jan2011, 7. UJ top completed Jan2011, 8. It’s the Royal Wedding Tomorrow!, 9. Union Jack Block Well, I’ve noticed them. For reasons I can’t explain, I’m really  drawn to the design. Perhaps, I’m influenced by our recent trip [...]

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen my sewing machine on a couple of rare moments, just enough to finish a couple of projects. I’ve been working on this pillow for my bed over the last couple of months. I really thought I’d finish it in March. Boy was I wrong. I finished it last week. It now resides on my bed. And when I turn my back. Calypso claims it as her own. [...]

After spending the day on the quilt market floor, I head to the Quilt Market Meetup with my friends. Wow! Talk about a lot of quilting peeps. It was overwhelming to be around so many amazing quilters. Everybody was oh so friendly. Of course they lined up great give-a-ways. At our table, everybody won something. Amy and I scored our very own Slice machines. Fun! I did play with mine for a bit. I’ll write [...]

Lately, I’ve been getting into twitter, even after I swore I wouldn’t. Never say never. Right? I have Amy and Erin to thank for piquing my interest. Now I’m looking for the right tweets to follow. If you tweet, leave your twitter handle in comments. If you like to follow me, my twitter handle is rachelinslc. I know, very original and creative.

On Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend a day at Quilt Market as a perk from the business my mom is getting going, more on that later. Not only was the day spent with good quilting friends, we found a couple of sponsored challenges for the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild, again details are still being flushed out. If you want more info, come to the guild meeting on Thursday. The Kona booth was [...]