Now that I’m working on finishing several quilts for me I’m having a problem figuring out how to display them in my home. It seems there is no one easy way to display or hang quilts. Everyone does it differently and has their own preference. I thought I’d share some options out there. If you hang...

New reader Sheryl e-mailed me this week with some great video tutorials she uses for piping and a suggestion on how to make my first pillow cover.  Her suggestions prompted me to look for some other pillow tuts and I thought I’d share the piping videos since I thought they were very helpful. Slipcover Pillow...

I’ve got half the quilt quilted so far – all hooped on my embroidery machine.  I do have to sit and babysit this one since the quilt is pretty big and it likes to scoot around sometimes and get out of the clips. I try to find a few good movies on TV and hoop...

I attended a lecture and workshop with Juanita Yeager, art quilter. What a great experience! I worked on my blocks for the Scrappy Trip Around the World swap Playing with some leftovers from my snowball blocks I have a new toy!! I did a jelly roll race quilt Stitched on my first t-shirt and a...

So I finished stitching all my blocks together on the snowball quilt late Saturday evening. It’s always nice when good movies are on the premium channels so you can get lots done without having to find something to be on in the background! Water for Elephants is on HBO now so I watched the last...