I have been in Lake Havasu since January 4th. I was honored to be invited to teach One Block Wonder at “Quilting By The Lake” for the Havasu Stitcher’s Quilt Guild. I had a great group of ladies. They did a fabulous job!

The week ended with a OBW Trunk Show

The best part of the trip was meeting my half Sister Marti for the first time! We found each other through Ancestry DNA test. We had never met until January 2020.

Marti and her husband Mike! We have had so much fun.

I even got to meet “Walter ...

I've just finished quilting Carolyn's Big Leaf - it is from a class she took with Pat Pauly.  And a peek at the back:

We have had a week of unusually settled, dry, January weather so I put the Ercol rocking chair outside to try and strip off the rest of the dark wood stain. It was a much more complicated job than I had anticipated with so many fiddly struts and the only thing that really worked was sanding it all off. I used an electric Mouse sander and tried out a lookalike Dremel which was useless. Purists would have done the job by hand to avoid scratching the wood but that would have taken months. I applied a dry paste of Barkeepers ...

If you haven’t participated in Shop Hop before, you’ve missed out on a lot of fun. Each shop is unique, offering something that you won’t find in the others. Widen your horizons this year. As quilters, we love visiting different shops!

This year we will have 7 shops participating: Sunday Best Quiltworks in Ellerslie, Sew Much Fun in Columbus, A Scarlet Thread in McDonough, Hometown Quilts in Hogansville, Birdhouse Quilts in Byron, Couture Sewing Center in Macon, and Magical Stitches in Macon.

Our dates this year are Friday Feb. 14th thru Monday Feb. 17th. As usual, the ...

2019 Review:   Family, Education, Quilting (In that Order!)
While I have been relentlessly working to enjoy my family and add to my skills in data science,  I managed to still spend time with my best quilting friends and finish some projects along the way.   It was a light year for photographs and blog posts, but I hope you all enjoyed the “tricks” that I shared during the Dueling Threads retreat.

Quilty Finishes:  7 quilts long-armed for others, 2 gifted quilts, several minis and some charity quilts, 2 quilt shows, and 2 retreats.  Plus,  I got to see my Mom participate ...

I know the difference between finite and infinite and I know this is wrong, but I’m beginning to feel like there’s an infinite number of UFOs in this house. Not “infinite” because they cannot be counted but infinite because the number may never end because I just keep finding them in the unlikeliest of places....

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I am at day 2 of my quilt retreat, and, I have been getting stuff done that I can share next week.
As part of the rainbow scrap challenge, I have been working on a row by row quilt. January and green is the color of the drunkard's path block.
I have them all cut and several ready to sew together, but it does take some time.

Last night I finished Rosemary Cottage, book #2 in the Hope Beach series by Colleen Coble. I loved the first book in the series, Tidewater Inn, but I think I liked Rosemary Cottage more. The third book in this series is Seagrass Pier. I have it for the Kindle but prefer the audio version so...

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And still this quilt is a long way from finished.....
The paper pieced outer border is done. Ignore the jazzy pink red rug it's laid out on.