A day like today takes me back to high school and lines by James Russel Lowell that we had to memorize: What is so rare as a day in June? Th...

I'm traveling again, and so still can't do anything creative. I am thinking though! My guild is having a challenge based on the Qu...

I have just spent 10 days at my mother's and have done no sewing or quilting. However, I have looked at some interesting magazines and ...

This is one of the Japanese books I bought in Paris. Unfortunately, a scanner is on my list of electronic-things-I-need, so I have tried to...

Arrived home last night after long, but basically pleasant flight. Just starting to unpack and organize. Bob left to go run an experiment ...

Yesterday I went to Brentano's American Bookstore and treated myself to two Japanese quilting/needlework books. They have a huge select...

After the third week here I have finally made it to an internet cafe to post. Can't do any pictures though because I don't have fac...

I'm packing to go to Paris! It's exciting, although right now I'm tired. We will be there four weeks. My husband does some re...

I made fabric postcard/Mother's Day cards for my mother and sister. As I was cutting out the little flowers to fuse into the basket for...

Here's my tentative final arrangement of blocks. I do have one that I have to resew to get this arrangement (center on left hand side) ...

I can see why this is called Circle Play. It's great fun, and I'm beginning to get excited about the finished product. I intend to...

I have finally begun to work with the fabrics I bought in Australia almost three years ago. By a great coincidence there was a big quilt sh...

I came back from Paducah on Friday, but I haven't really felt like posting about it. I'm not sure why. It wasn't a bad experie...

Several months ago when I was cleaning the junk in Bob's home office I found an envelope of pictures he took eight years ago while visit...

It's a top ten day here in Northern Indiana--temperatures in the upper 60's, not a breath of wind, and a sky so bright blue and clou...

I finished this charity quilt yesterday and am very pleased with the way it turned out. I always feel so virtuous when I use up some of my ...

Here's a view of the little kingdom that gave my blog its name. My "studio" (when I was making things to sell, my family call...

Two more quilts from Chicago that I particularly liked. After thinking about them, I've decided that what they have in common that appe...

Here are a few of my favorite quilts from the International Quilt Festival in Chicago yesterday. I don't know the names of the quilters...

I decided to put a facing instead of a binding on my Hoffman challenge quilt because I didn't think it needed that extra line made by th...