Let’s make a cover for those travel tissues! This simple and quick 5 minute tissue holder pattern only uses two fabrics and is perfect for making for gifts, sewing friends and just having around in your home.

Feel free to mix and match your fabrics, use scraps from your stash and even personalize them for your friends.

If you’ve been looking for a quick gift – this is one! It doesn’t take much in fabric and supplies (nothing special) and should take you under 10 minutes from start to finish.

Depending on the size of your travel tissue ...

 We’ve been busy, as usual, at our prayers and squares group. And I continue to work on projects here at home as well. I finished up the red/grey/yellow quilt today. It will go with me tomorrow to be trimmed and bound. All my striped binding fabrics now live at the church. I’m continuing to work on the half square triangle sampler quilt and now have 14 blocks finished. I only have a picture of 12 of them. These are a lot of fun to do. Although I have found that I have to be really careful ...

Time for some catching up! Back in January my pal Debbie was cleaning out her stash and gifted me a beautiful stack of improv hourglass blocks she had made last year. 

I had a wonderful time assembling them into a quilt top, adding a scrap or two of my own alone the way to make things fit. As I assembled it, I began adding appliqué dots here and there, because, why not? The Modern Quilt Guild has recently embraced Maximalism as an element of modern quilting and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get on board. 

I attached ...

Well, with the month of May ...... comes a different set of quilts for display in our home.

Here they are ..... enjoy!

During my bone-mending "sabbatical" from this blog I have been stitching away. Smaller, close to my body movements such as cross-stitch and piecing didn't over-reach my capabilities. I HAD to do something other than sitting still and reading! This Blackbird Designs sampler spoke to me. I'm drawn to "bee" patterns especially, maybe because my first name is actually Hebrew for bee. This

During my bone-mending "sabbatical" from this blog I have been stitching away. Smaller, close to my body movements such as cross-stitch and piecing didn't over-reach my capabilities. I HAD to do something other than sitting still and reading! This Blackbird Designs sampler spoke to me. I'm drawn to "bee" patterns especially, maybe because my first name is actually Hebrew for bee. This

It's going to be 88 today! Then in the low 70's the rest of the week.

“Easy Layer-Cake Quilts” by Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobson instantly caught my eye with its adorable front page. With promises of 11 simple quilts that start with 10″ squares, I couldn’t wait to dive into this book and explore the creative possibilities it offered.

From the moment I opened the cover, I was greeted with a wealth of inspiration and practical guidance. The authors, known for their Me and My Sister Designs, have truly outdone themselves with this collection of quilts. Each project is thoughtfully designed to showcase the beauty of layer cakes—precut 10″ squares—while also providing ...

The Zion Woman's Club year-end luncheon was between the downpours that rolled in and rolled out at least three times yesterday.   The officer installation was performed by our friend Chris (Waukegan Women's Club).  Judy passed the gavel to me.  This will be my second time as president.  

I made the wall hanging -- hollyhocks are our club flower.  Judy and her husband are moving out of state and giving up the garden she's been nurturing for many years.  

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The brown batik triangles are all assembled.  6" finished blocks, 60 x 72.

Good morning, my friends. We had another relaxing day. It was Mike's birthday, and so I made him his beloved Eggs Benedict for breakfast. After breakfast, I went to work making a small dessert for our birthday dinner celebration. I tried a recipe for Lemon Pudding Cakes for Two. I happen to love pudding cake of any kind. Since I had everything I needed on hand, it was an easy choice. They had to bake for 45 minutes. When they came from the oven, they looked like this:

Good morning, my friends. We had another relaxing day. It was Mike's birthday, and so I made him his beloved Eggs Benedict for breakfast. After breakfast, I went to work making a small dessert for our birthday dinner celebration. I tried a recipe for Lemon Pudding Cakes for Two. I happen to love pudding cake of any kind. Since I had everything I needed on hand, it was an easy choice. They had to bake for 45 minutes. When they came from the oven, they looked like this:

 To Do Tuesday - Last time's goals:

I thought I would add the last of my photos ...

The goal with my photography this year is to just enjoy the process and capture photos that bring me joy.  The lack of mobility due to my knee problems limited my photo excursions in March.  But I did get out a couple of times with the camera.  

Welcome to Wednesday Wait Loss! WWL is a place where you can share photos of quilts you’re working on and get encouragement to finish them from our Wednesday Wait Loss group!

First let me tell you what I've been up to

Last Wednesday, the Reflections Blog Hop began! I’m hosting the hop to celebrate my first collection with Island Batik—Reflections! Every day of the hop a new designer is sharing a quilt project made with Reflections fabrics. It’s been so inspiring and fun so far but the fun’s just beginning! Be sure to check ...

 One of my goals this week was to get the flimsy done for the spring door hanger.