We arrived late Sunday in Chicago, and drove home yesterday morning.  It's good to be back, and will be even better when the laundry is ...

Geometry in Bloom 22 x 22 Machine applique and quilting, fabric manipulation (texturing, weaving) beads Today is the deadline for the Hoff...

The July/August Interpret This! photo.  I'm excited about this one--so much to choose from. The Hoffman is gone--mailed and delivered...

Butterfly Days  18 x18 You can read more about it on the  Interpret This!  blog. In addition, I've been binding, labeling, sketchin...

Thanks, everyone who offered suggestions about the bleed.  I tried Tide stain stick, and it faded it a bit, but I could also see more bleed...

Just now when I unpinned my challenge quilt from where it had been drying after I spritzed it and blocked it, this is what I found.  It...

The quilting is done, and I'm ready to bind this!  I'm very happy with the background quilting.  For the third line, the one that ...

I'm about halfway through the second line of the grid--there is one more set of lines to go to make the hexagons and stars that I'm...

The June Interpret This! photo: I have two ideas.  One is very twenty-first century both in theme and technique, and the other is more ret...

The Janome automatically knots the thread when you begin zig-zagging, but after almost two years, I finally realized that to keep the knot ...

 Indiana Roadside 48 x 48 Amy is having the Spring Quilt Festival , which I almost missed.  Here's my entry, made about five years ag...

Spring Dreams 16 x 14 I went very literal this month; I'm not sure why that seemed the best thing to do, but it also worked into my t...

You may remember an earlier version of this--terrible piecing.  Here it is again, paper pieced.  Did that solve the problems?  Not entirely...

It's a real slump here.  I finished my IT! piece several days ago, (I almost typed years--does that mean something?), and haven't to...

I'm thankful that my mother's condition has stabilized and that I am back home, and grateful for other things as well. Thank you d...

I've been in Missouri for a week, with my mother's medical emergency.  I'd planned a trip anyway, but it has turned out to be ea...

Literally.  This is a charming block, but clearly the piecing will not pass.  My Quilt Pro program will no longer print foundations for pap...

It's a lovely spring photo, open to all sorts of interpretations.  I'm not sure what I'll do yet, but I hope I can decide, and ...

Here's the photo: And then we have the good, the bad, and the ugly. Which is which? This is version three, the official one.  You ca...

I spent a very enjoyable afternoon yesterday at a workshop presented by Anne Lullie , one of the "Chicago School of Fusing" quilte...