A Prairie Home Quilts

It’s been a while since I’ve posted because I’ve been having trouble with our ISP. So instead of wrestling with “server timed-out” messages and having to hit the “refresh” button multiple times, I’ve just been quilting. Yesterday, mom finished sewing the binding down on her quilt for me… I’m not sure if she volunteered because [...]

I’ve settled the border dilemma on the houses wallhanging from yesterday’s post. It’ll look nothing like the most of the pictures/ideas I’ve posted, I think. It will require another trip to the LQS but I won’t be able to get there until the 26th. It’s probably just as well because I should be focusing more [...]

This is my percolating project that I’ve been playing around with and I still can’t make a definite decision. So it will continue to percolate. The sashing between the blocks didn’t work for me. The houses need to make a statement about being “a crowd” and the sashing separates them too much. I also decided [...]

I found a magnetic bowl to use for my pins at the machine quilting frame. I’ve wanted to purchase one for a while now and read in the latest issue of Love of Quilting magazine where they were available at auto supply stores. I went and checked at one here locally… the guy behind the [...]

I’ve been busy organizing other areas of my life and haven’t really done much on the quilting home front. [sadly] This week’s goals are a repeat of last week’s as I didn’t do anything quilty. I *did* make good progress on getting organized so that I can tell at a glance what needs to be [...]

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s the name of a program on TV… but it is my mission today to get some things organized in the sewing studio and the room where I have my machine quilting frame. I am sooo tired of wasting time hunting for things that I thought I knew where they were [...]