Detest Ironing?
I don’t mind pressing blocks or unwrinkling lengths of normal width fabric, but I detest ironing extra wide fabric. No matter how you place it on your ironing board, some of it drapes onto the floor and crumples. It is a never ending wrinkle battle! However, I...Timeless Treasures
Two of my quilt designs are shown in Timeless Treasures’ Digital Catalogue! Please follow the link and see pages 4-5 (All-American Heroes – 72″ x 72″) and 20-21 (Town Heroes – 84″ x 84″). The patterns will be published in my...
Design Mania!
Wintergreen Block I have been very quiet on my blog for a few weeks because I have been in the midst of design mania. What exactly is design mania – its when you have so many ideas flowing you work hard to capture them all. What triggers design mania? For me, it...
New Fabrics Added to the Shop
The first fabrics were added to the shop (online). These beautiful Hoffman Watercolor fabrics are the basis for the Justice Quilt. I love the Watercolor fabrics because they have such depth to them. Next week, we will be filming the first segments for the quilt...
Kids Quilting
Yesterday, I finished cleaning out a closet that had all of the projects and papers from when my kids were in elementary and middle school. Given one of them has graduated from college, it was a good time to purge. I couldn’t part with all of it and kept items...
Justice
Justice – Tourmaline & Thyme Quilts, copyright 2020 Social justice has been headlining the news lately. The latest wave started in Minnesota and spread across the globe. This was the inspiration for the Block of the Month – Justice. This Block of the...
Cherrywood Challenge – Update
Over the past month, I have feverishly been working on a quilt. Yes, it is possible to work in haste and be creative – granted it is more stressful. However, it does keep one from hemming and hawing too much about design choices. When you are on a deadline, you...
Grandma’s Quilt Rack
Grandma’s Quilt Rack One of my most vivid memories of my Grandma McMurray’s house is her quilt rack, which always had a quilt stretched across it and several chairs surrounding it. She would host quilting bees at her house in front of the Franklin Stove....
