elle est arrivée (and I’m not talking Beaujolais Nouveau!)
Yes I’m back in Utah, AGAIN! This post is kinda 2 posts in one, apart from the fact I have been too busy to post I have had limited to no internet for a week. Now, as someone whose whole life IS the internet not having access for one day seems like a month, can […]
Stunning art quilts
I have joined two quilt guilds since I moved to SoCal and have made some wonderful friends. The first guild I joined was "Beach Cities" very big but they have some wonderful speakers and it was there I joined a friendship group and met Jan, Paula, Sandi and Barbara. We called ourselves "The Forgetful Stitches" […]
Those Crazy Cats
I just did a workshop at one of my quilt guilds, Flying Geese. It was a short 3 hour lesson on how to make a quilt called Those Crazy Cats by Buggy Barn. I just thought it was so cool I took some photos to show you. No this is NOT the one I made, […]
Cool Quilt Show
Well I thought it was cool anyway but as Tim says I'm raving mad. After all you have to be mad to take perfectly good pieces of fabric, cut them up and sew them back together again. Well I never said I had that strong of a grip on reality ;o) Being new to California […]
Quilts, Quilts, Quilts
Well It is Laurens birthday tomorrow and as they are spending today at Disneyland I know they won't be reading this blog so I can now release pictures of the quilt I have made for them. This first quilt for Lauren was the one I mostly finished at the retreat. Here you can see the […]
Utah to California to Utah to California
Weird but it's exactly what happened. We left Utah the first week of February which meant we hit California when the rain was also hitting it. Not a big problem as after all I knew all I would be doing the first 3 weeks or so there was going to be unpacking. I'm getting ahead […]
Oh Kathy, what have you done to me?
Oh Kathy, what have you done to me? You're supposed to be my best friend! I only made dresses before I met you and now I am so into quilting it's threatening to engulf me. I have 46 boxes of fabric stash and sewing related "stuff", and the worst part is I can't bear […]
Fun weekend at a Quilt Retreat
I have just had such a fun weekend. I have wanted to go on this quilt retreat for years but either something got in my way or it was full and I was wait listed. This year I managed to get on the second one (the first one is always full of the regulars who […]
Good news and new meds BUT………………………..and some weird irony.
Nothing is ever easy is it? It has taken me a while to get this written because sitting at the PC starts to send shooting pains into my eye after about an hour so when I am sitting here I have to do that horrible 4 letter word ‘work’ which precludes me from writing my […]
Thoroughly pissed off of Utah here!
Well I think enough of you have seen the back and forth about my eye enough to know it’s a pain in the proverbial! Well, now it’s worse than that!!!!!! I have to cancel my vacation to Costa Rica as my eye has taken a nose dive. Could someone please tell me how, when I […]
Apologies
I really do have to apologize for mouthing off in my last post. The HQ16 longarm quilting machine I have is actually a wonderful piece of engineering, I have since finished the quilt, put some practice material on the machine changed the thread and hey presto it sews like a genie! The moral: don’t buy […]
My HQ16 Quilting Machine
My quilting machine and I have a love / hate relationship. I love her when she works right but when she doesn’t I want her to pick a window cos she’s leaving!!! She reminds me of a poem I learnt when I was a child (XXX years ago LOL) There once was a girlWho had […]
Snow, Snow, Snow
Dear Hubby clearing the driveway and no that’s not a white hat it’s a red ear muffler with frozen hair on top! This is all I could see out of my kitchen window on Christmas morning! It doesn’t really show here but that is a ridge of snow about 5 foot high out there! Had […]
Christmas and the Art of Hiding Presents
Ah Christmas, don’t we love it? Christmas trees, presents, guests, snow. Sounds great doesn’t it unless you are the one decorating the tree, buying the presents, running around after the guests and shoveling the bloody snow for the umpteenth time. Jeez, I’ve been in Utah for 8 years and I really used to enjoy the […]
No Quilting For A Week!!!
If you decide to look at the Slide Presentation to the right make sure you go to the first slide, you can tell you are there because it say’s ‘Slide One’ along with some inane comment! We did have wonderful week there this time (no snow – see last post) but I did get withdrawal […]