Hip Hip Hoooray!!!! I taught my last class at the U of R until next Fall! This class I teach in May term called Mother Earth Chemistry is an intense investigation into the “Science of Self Reliance”. We meet for 4 hours every day of the week and learn by DOING! The highlights are always… Continue Reading
Well, we lucked out and had pretty good weather last weekend! I set up on the sidewalk by the street right next to my friends Liz and Adele: Although we had lots of foot traffic, sometimes it was tough to talk to folks outside the booth because people couldn’t walk around us on the sidewalk… Continue Reading
We have just had the BUSIEST Memorial Day weekend ever!!! Somehow we had to squeeze Liam’s birthday into the cracks, but squeeze we did! It doesn’t seem that long ago he was a blue eyed babe: now he is 17 years old!!!! His actual birthday was last Friday, but his Dad had meetings until an… Continue Reading
I was able to dye up and stitch 14 Going Green totes for the show this weekend! Now, I’ve got to price and label everything, make a bunch of signs and get packed up for the show! I had a lot of fun stiching a lot of my newer motifs, including the ones I did… Continue Reading
Phew! I got some linen zip bags stitched up for my show this weekend! I’m layering the linen with a layer of SF101 and then some fusible fleece, I really like this combination of stabilization and am looking forward to building some bigger bags this way! Yes, it’s killing me that I sewed one of… Continue Reading
Well, I had a few minutes to snap some pix of my new botanical sketch pillows. I made 5, 4 of which I had pieced a long time ago and left unfinished (thank you me of the past!) and a 5th one was put together with stepouts from a Quilting Arts TV episode I taped… Continue Reading
The me from 2 years ago gave me a great present! I was making a bunch of botanical sketch pillow fronts and I must have had enough to fill the shelf I like to put them on for shows and put the quiced, quilted but not Free Motion Machine Sketched. I need to re-stock that… Continue Reading
Wow, I had a ton of comments for my giveaway! The lucky number was: And that was…. Who has the coolest blog name ever: Little House on the Dairy! When I was cruising through her recent posts, I came across this great picture of her cute daughter surrounded by chickens, I had to share it… Continue Reading