Part of the rehab for my ankle is riding an exercise bike every day. So we have turned my bike into an indoor bike for a while.  I think eve...

Due to an injury I have been confined to the house for a while, mostly with my leg elevated. I have knitted, crocheted, read.... Finding al...

Camelback - tick Sleeping bag - tick Walking boots and explorer socks  - tick Woolly beanie (lovingly made) - tick Flanno and thermals - tic...

My "babies" are back, all beautifully quilted. Sharon has done a wonderful job. The Tetris quilt was quilted with a variegated thr...

While I'm still knee-deep in stars, I thought that I would work on a woolly UFO. This pretty little cardigan just needs a little baby gi...

Every row of my star quilt requires 16 diamonds to join the stars up and then another 34-35 to join the row to the quilt top. So every once ...

While I am still "star-struck" on the quilting side, the onset of autumn rain and chill made me yearn for the comfort of wool. It ...

This has been on my UFO list for ..... 7 years now.... I have spurts of working on it, and then it gets relegated to the shelf again....

Once upon a time there was a mother who found a pattern for a fairy tale quilt which she thought would be perfect for her daughter..... 3 ...

MOH made me a new work area. Until now my cutting mat lived under the sofa so that it could lie flat, and whenever I needed to do some cutt...

As we wait for Turtle's Tetris bedspread  to be quilted, I completed Little Possum's bedspread. She already has a fine collec...

There's a Little Possum at my house who wants a bedspread We're well on the way :)

Back in 2010 I bought a layer cake of Japanese prints. It was unplanned. I had probably made the trip to the quilt shop to purchase some th...

I have had a long break from blogging... and also from quilting/sewing. But I started to miss it, so I'm back for more. I declared 2013...

My Redwork quilt is in slow progress... I have been doing it in a monthly class but am a little behind, so I feel like my kids when they go ...

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response ...

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every ...