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The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 12
When we were children, Mum always told us, look out when you all grow up I will become an artist. I remember smiling and thinking "On, ya sure, I never even see her doodle little drawings. Could she really paint?" Boy, did she prove me wrong. When I saw her first...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 11
At the end of the blog post Evelyn's Pretty in Pink quilt I mentioned that Lucy and Tim announced that they are expecting another baby girl in November so time to plan another quilt!lr Well baby girl Aliza Kate arrived at 12:40 pm on November 8 and the quilt arrived ...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 10
So today I am going back to prompt # 4 and posting about one of my sewing machines this time my Singer Featherweight which is my pride and joy. I decided to get a featherweight after spending time watching Bonnie Hunter quiltcam where she sewed on older machines and...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 9
Today I am going with prompt # 26 - Favorite sewing foot and for this I have to go with my Handi Glide Foot 2 got my HQ Avante. The Glide Foot 2 is a bowl-shaped foot that easily glides around...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 8
I am jumping around in the challenge prompts and going with 19 - On the design wall so here it is: I smile when I look that my design wall as I love the bright colors and also enjoy looking at the applique as I digitized them myself. I purchased the art work from...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 7
On day 4 of the challenge I talked about what a wonderful artist my Mum is. As I was looking for the photos for another post I came across some of Mums paintings and decided to post them here to show them off: The next two are showing the painting half way done and...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 6
So today the topic I decided to go with for the 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge is First Project and decided to re-publish the blog I did in August 2008 when I took my first quilting class. This is from Blogger blog which I was suprized to see was still online. So...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 5
My favorite tools in my sewing room currently are new additions to my list of tools and very quickly I wondered why I didn't get these a long time ago! First up is the Stash 'n Store which I first saw Eleanor Burns use when she was demoing as the featured artist at ...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 4
For day four of the blog writing challange I want to share some of amazing art that my Mom has created and show what an awesome artist she is and sharing a cross section of her wonderful paintings: [gallery size="medium" columns="2"...
The 2019 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge – Day 3
One of the reasons I wanted to start writing my blog again was to document my quilts, to me each quilt has a story and I want to use my blog as a way of sharing this. Here is a quilt I made a few years ago and still one of my favorites and it hangs in the hallway...