If you are on the Mini Barn Quilt newsletter you’ll have already gotten the news but the Mini Barn Quilt shop will be shutting down at the end of this month and effective yesterday all kits are deeply discounted to 50% off! I’m planning to write a bit more about this from a perspective of…
Category: Musings
A collection of thoughts, ideas and general ramblings
Watercolor in the Mountains
This weekend B and I traveled up to camp in the Adirondack Mountains. Even though we were there for less than 48hrs, it’s amazing how relaxing a bit of outdoor time and pure , unadulterated sunshine can be. Last year when we went up for a week in August I had impulsively run to the…
Paddle Adventure on the 5th of July
Is has been nice to actually take some time to relax recently. I finished my big project (30 pillows, 9 cushions in a 7 day deadline) and will have photos to share on that in the next week or two but I wanted to share another non-quilting or crafting related post so please take a seat…
A Little Weekend Away
I was lucky enough to sneak away for the weekend for a bit of R&R at my family’s cottage on the coast of Connecticut. It was unfortunately a bit of a gloomy weekend but once the rain broke Sunday morning I grabbed my camera for a little “get outside” adventure before I headed home. This…
Me? Being crafty!
I’m so excited to share with y’all that I’m one of the latest guests on Tsoniki Crazy Bull’s Me Being Crafty Podcast! We got in touch back in March and she wanted to chat about the projects I have going on especially QuiltAlong.net as well as my other creative endeavors. If you remember back to my…
Bird Watching, Blog Hopping
Recently I moved from the city to a much more rural area. It wasn’t the glorious city life of TV shows but it’s very different here: not having a grocery store, gas station, or highway closer than a 10-minute walk. That being said I really love having a backyard now and even though it’s full…
Podcasts: Creative Background Noise
It used to be bad TV that I kept on in the background when I’m making things but recently I’ve gotten back into podcasts. A podcast is like radio on demand + audio blogging. I listen to things from the news to interviews with blogging professionals or people with successful creative careers. Many are posted…
The Move
I will not apologize for not posting much this past week because I don’t feel bad about it. The move over the weekend went well, all things considered. My back is killing me, the pedometer says I did 127 flights of stairs from Thursday – Sunday (that’s just how many I went UP) and mother…
Free Broken Feather Arrow Paper Piece Pattern
This broken feather arrow paper piece block an original pattern I drafted up recently to accompany my lone star medallion quilt. It uses scraps from five different prints for the broken feathers plus a background and fabric for the arrow’s shaft and tip. One of the reasons I felt compelled to design yet another paper…
Monday Mistakes – 94% Scaled Paper Piecing
In this semi-weekly series called Mistake Monday I talk about a cultural taboo: making mistakes. I make mistakes, constantly and aside from mentions of seam ripping I don’t see enough posts online about how people fix these mistakes with passable solutions or how they emotionally moved passed the mistake, let’s break that taboo. I needed…