A Prairie Home Quilts

Well I had all these plans. . . I ended up helping out someone who needed me to care for their dogs & horses.  They had an emergency out of town.  It is giving me a chance to do some hand piecing but I’m not getting some other important projects done.  I am posting though [...]

This week for her “Let’s Talk” Tuesday post, Mrs. Goodneedle of Strawberry Patch Quiltworks asked, “How do you decide where to spend your quilting time?” For me, the simple answer is: By looking at my lists! I guess the truth is that nowadays many of us are on sensory overload when it comes to quilting [...]

While I was sitting at my desk, I looked up at my inspiration board with family pictures and was inspired to do another four letter word block for Tonya.  I decided it would be good to do another block for more practice, and because I wanted to do a word that no one else had [...]

Oh, wait.  These are supposed to be Halloween noises. I guess it should be shrieking in fear. Here is my “shriek” block for Tonya’s Slither Eek Boo quilt. Tee hee. Okay.  It’s really Ludo sleeping on my “shriek” block.  All fabric is fair game for him as a prime sleeping spot.  My plan for “shriek” [...]

Here is my “home” block for Tonya’s four letter word quilt.  You can see some of the wonky words she’s received for the quilt so far here.  As you can tell by looking at my block I was still having difficulty doing wonky after the unwonkiness of “pray.”  [Yes, I'm making up words now.] The [...]

I was inspired by Lucy of Quilting with the Past to make some HST from the scraps in my basket of 2″ squares.  It was mindless sewing and before you know it, I had enough HST to make three mini quilts.  [I hadn't planned to do that many.] I made my youngest DS put them [...]

And using wonky letters to make wonky words.  While I was house sitting, this was the perfect diversion from all my hand pieced projects.  Well, that and looking through quilting magazines and books that lined the shelves of the quilters’ houses where I was house sitting. . .  Not only did I take more projects [...]