Aidan tastes some apple pie juice, while Conor works on his smile. Actually these were taken last weekend, not at Thanksgiving, but they cer...

Sometimes you can have design decision overload, and it's good to have some no-brainer projects to fall back on. That's my state ri...

This morning, on The Writer's Almanac, Garrison Keillor quoted Robert Louis Stevenson: "Our business in life is not to succeed, but...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of this show was meeting Debi of Dubi Quilts. We had lunch, a good chat, and walked around to discuss ou...

Allison Aller just posted pictures of her work area in the midst of heavy creativity, and in her case creativity with wonderful results. ...

Well, I'm not going to Houston (but it's fun to read the adventures of people who are there), and I'm not going to my guild retr...

On a beautiful day last week, I took my camera to the Notre Dame campus to give you a glimpse of what, according to some statistics, is Indi...

It's an angel-- It's the ears of a mutant rabbit-- It's a frog leg-- Actually, it's a ghost orchid. And maybe it's the c...

Does anyone know any tips about appliqueing sheers (net, tulle) to a quilt top? What kind of machine stitching, how do you mark the pattern...

I drove back from Missouri yesterday, a perfectly smooth drive, 10 hours, not much traffic even in the dread I80-94 stretch south of Chicago...

I was able to spend a couple of hours today making a test of how the ghost orchid might look in applique. It comes out to about 14 x 18 inc...

I have to go to Chicago to play Grandma tomorrow, and then I have to go to Missouri to do eldercare, and then Grandma again... So I don...

This is Aidan Michael, 6.25 pounds, who has reddish blond hair, and Conor Robert, 7+ pounds, with dark curly hair, both beautiful. They wer...

Here are all the Ruth McDowell sample blocks. The arrangement may be changed, and I'm only auditioning that center square. It was grea...

A member of my Michigan guild who spends the winter in Florida is organizing a quilt show to coincide with the World Orchid Society confere...

I've put the inner border on this exchange block quilt, and am auditioning the next two borders. I'm not sure that I now like the m...

I wish everyone who has a picnic or beach outing planned for Labor Day could have the kind of weather we're having. It's going to b...

Finally a new project is in the works! It's not my project from start to finish, but it's exciting to be pulling out fabric in colo...

I haven't been able to post for quite a while because I've been traveling due to family obligations. I also haven't done any cr...

Deb Geyer has posted a video about using Elmer's School Glue as basting glue. This reminded me of another easily available school supp...