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Pinwheel quilted dog bed

Since we’ve moved to our new home, the dogs haven’t appreciated the wood floor in the bedroom so I made them a quilted dog bed so they’d have something soft to sleep on. I used a charm pack to create pinwheels, sewed a pillow case back and stuffed it with a waterproof dog bed liner […]

AQS adds quilt show in Daytona Beach

American Quilter’s Society has added an eighth quilt show to its 2016 schedule in Florida. The newest QuiltWeek show will be held February 24 through 27 at the Ocean Center, 101 North Atlantic Avenue, Daytona Beach. The finer details of the show still need to be finalized, but Bonnie Browning, executive show director for AQS said there […]

Quilt retreat progress report

I had hoped to write a triumphant post today about how much I got done at Quilt Retreat last weekend. Unfortunately that’s not the case. While I normally can accomplish more in one four-day weekend of uninterrupted sewing than I can in a month of distracted craft time at home, my weekend was anything but […]

A system for keeping scraps

Some of you will consider this sacrilege: I threw out all the fabric in the picture above. I know there are some quilters out there who keep every piece of scrap fabric no matter how minuscule. I am not here to judge if you have bins filled with every piece of fabric left over from […]

Family stories in quilts

I went the the Iowa Illinois Quilt Study Group for the first time last weekend. The study topic was family quilts. The only family quilts I have are ones that I’ll make and pass down to my children someday. And I hope that these hypothetical children will cherish these quilts so that they don’t end […]

It feels good to declutter

My husband and I live in a little two bedroom ranch. Until now, the second bedroom has been my sewing room/throw anything in there that doesn’t have a permanent home. More often than not, it was a disaster. But now that we’re preparing for the arrival of our first child, all that has to change. […]