Mom’s quilt is finished.
It feels kinda crazy to actually say that, but it’s true – the quilt is finished, and it even survived washing and drying.
It’s good to be done, and done on time. I’ll arrange delivery to her sometime this week, and then I will let go of this quilt. I may never see [...]
There was very little stash activity this week, very little sewing going on at all, actually. However, yesterday, I spent basically the entire day yesterday in bed, hand-quilting Mom’s quilt. It was a gloriously relaxing day – I let Hulu tell me stories, and I think I’m getting much better with the hand-quilting (after a [...]
As a young girl and into my twenties, I read voraciously. Two of my favorites back then were Stephen King and Dean Koontz, and each of those dudes wrote a book that scared me more than I thought could even be possible from words on a page.
For Koontz, it was The Watcher, when the dog [...]
This morning’s heavy frost brought with it a distinct shift toward Winter. A powerful wind brought down the leaves from the trees last week, but that was followed by shirtsleeves weather for several days, giving Autumn a gorgeous goodbye. Today, though, felt like November. As I scraped the frost off the windows of my car, [...]
“Your underside finger will get pricked, but then it will build up a callus and you can show them off to other quilters.”
Oh my, how quickly that callus builds up!
After one seven-hour and one four-hour hand-quilting sessions, I have mild calluses on my left middle and index fingers. Not wanting to go through life unable [...]