Quilting Twin

I have run away from home for a few days, and I'm staying with my friend Kaye and quilting some quilts on one of her Statler computeris...

I do my sewing on a Janome 6500; before that I used a Janome 7000. I love both these machines, and they have been wonderful to sew on, but...

Life got in the way of blogging just lately, and it's still pretty hectic but I will try and post a little more regularly. Someone asked...

The block I'm working on doesn't seem to have a name that I can find right now. The book helpfully calls it Pieced Blockwork quilt....

I have been busy with other things besides sewing lately, and I'm needing a fix. Might be able to do a few seams tonight, but what I re...

I have been collecting dark blues for 25 years in order to make this quilt (can't find the name right now). But I kept using the blues ...

I am still refolding my stash, and measuring as I go. My backing leng ths, florals and blues total 575 metres. Hmmmm, don't know if I...

The stack of material at right is the sum total of 9 hours of work; measuring, ironing and refolding my backings. My feet hurt! It doesn...

Happy birthday Meredith ! Our birth story had a happy ending because of the efforts of two women; Sister Lewis and Flockie, the attending nu...

This is the one day of the year when I'm a year older than Meredith. We have two older brothers, and Mum was quite happy to leave it at ...

I went to the library today and borrowed some knitting and quilting books, and this art book. It's called Blue and Yellow Don't Ma...

In between building construction activites on the weekend I sat at my sewing machine. And had an attack of rationality. That's when a...

Nines asked for pictures of laundry rooms, so here's mine. It's just inside the back door, which is off to the left. It's buil...

I ask you, is this the proper use of a treadmill? All the cats take turns sleeping on it, and I hate to say that I haven't turfed them ...