I just wanted to make a quick plug for the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show that I'm attending this week. It's a relatively small show,...

Thanks for the welcome and encouraging words from other Quilters' Lounge members. I'm delighted to be one of this group. I did the ...

I've done the frame for the Japanese puzzle quilt. I stabilized the thing by ironing it to freezer paper, and turning under the edges ...

I think I like this--now to figure out how to actually draft and sew that border! Yowee. I guess a paper pattern is the way to go, but mea...

Today I was cleaning out the guestroom closet, doing the flylady twenty-seven fling thing when I dug out a quilt that I was hand quilting a...

I finished sewing the blocks and pieces of the puzzle piece together. It is small, 20 by 33 inches, which is about what I was aiming for. ...

The view from my dining room window this morning. So beautiful, but are they welcome? I had to drive them away because they were munchin...

Color Harmony for Quilts by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. These are unusual quilts, more traditional in technique than "art quilts...

I said I would never make one of these--never say never. My sister's birthday is next week, and I thought of something I could put on a...

I'm getting ready to send my "global warming" quilt to the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington, and so want to post it....

I'm really getting into the design now. I've placed several blocks and am at least partly pleased with the design that's develo...

The puzzle pattern is very intriquing--something simple made into something complex. The block is a large 60 degree diamond made out of fou...

Two weeks ago I started reading The Artist's Way, and although I really haven't done many of the exercises except the morning pages,...

Quilted my mini "art" quilt. It was fun, but I have no idea how I really feel about the design. I tried to give it a kind of for...

Yesterday I took the plunge and made a fusible fabric sketch of one of my drawings for the Quilt University Lines and Shapes class. This wa...

I love scrap quilts! What I love about scrap quilts is the way everything blends into a colorful blur which is so much prettier than the ...

Not having touched fabric yesterday, I started out today by making blocks for guild block exchange tomorrow night. How many ways can a pers...

Busy today! I have been working on my lines for the Playing with Lines and Shapes class, and came up with some I liked. Since it's suc...

My week of heavy quilting opportunity is over. I did finish the top of the parrots piece, and am getting ready to hand quilt! This is some...

Jenny on the Scraps blog posted some wonderful Franz Marc paintings for inspiration. With no pretensions that it's anything great, I a...