Category: Quilt Related


  • Summer’s End

    Here is a preview of Summer’s End, our summer block of the week.  I hope you like it.  Order your finishing kit as soon as you can to help us know how many kits to cut.  I will post the freebie quilt too, it is done but I forgot to photograph it…oh well it will…

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  • Book Projects

    Hey Everyone!  I am so excited to have our “Autumn Gatherings” book done…Below are all of the 24 of the projects, the top four are the  bigger quilts from the book, the next 6 are the little quilts and wall hangings, the rest of the photos are everything else, wool projects, punchneedle, stitchery and pillows…

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  • Thursday- already?

    Ok..I really do not know where the days go…last weekend i attended Patsy’s Homestead Cabin Retreat in Hillpoint, WI. I met a lot of nice new people. If you ever need to get away this is the place. I love the food, and my Sweedish Birth, that were i slept…like a log, I might add……

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  • Hand Quilting

          Today  is way below 0 degrees here in WI with a wind chill factor of -45degrees, schools are closed and I am getting ready to go to a retreat this weekend.  So lots to do…My photo is a quilt that I am hand quilting.  Crazy Hearts by The Buggy Barn.  It is…

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  • New Year 2009

    Below is my first quilt of the year! I started it on New Years Eve and finished it today! I just love it.  I have not peiced this much in awhile.  I used 9 bobbins piecing it and it measures 106×106.  It will be for the new book coming out this spring!  I ran out…

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  • Sewing in sewing room

      Well my desk area is all back together and is messy as usual.  My sewing space in in the shape of an “L”.  In the short side of the “L” is this space where there is a 3×6 window and then my sewing machine is to the right of here.  I will show the…

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  • Brigham City UT and Lee’s Summit MO

      I just arrived home last night from Lee’s Summit MO, where I taught 3 classes, punchneedle, wool applique and wool applique w/piecing on a little cotton tulip quilt.  There were a great bunch of teachers there as well.  See below….   I love teaching.  I meet a whole new bunch of people where ever…

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  • I did not die!

    Ok…I have been a lot of places in the last two or three weeks…I know i should be kicked off blogland, but I think i will be able to blog while i am gone, but, I do not get signals on my wi-fi strong enough to post..so I guess i will try to be better…

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  • We went plant shopping

    Ann, Carol and I made our yearly trip to Honeymoon Acres in New Holstein, WI.  They have such wonderful plants at the most reasonable prices….Look at the size of the hanging basket Carol is holding…it was only $21…click on the photo…to see how beautiful it is…the next thing I have to rave about is how…

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  • Summer Block of the Week, yes week….

    Yesterday  and today I started drawing and picking out fabric for my summer block of the week…This will run the 12 weeks of summer at our quilt shop, Primitive Gatherings.  It will be fairly simple, have a primitive look…I have the wools picked out, 3 blocks drawn and have decided how I will set them…Ordered…

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