Baking is my first creative love beginning with the staff of life, bread. Oh how I enjoy kneading the dough until it's just the right consistency then there's that yeasty build up from the moment it goes into the oven when dough and heat combine preparing the bread for consumption. Waiting until the bread has… Continue reading Ruined: The Angel Food Cake Saga
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Pardon me While I get a bit Sentimental
It all starts about mid-May every year. Sweet, sweet memories of the beginnings of the preparation for our wedding. Figuring out what we could do. Finding a wedding dress in the City for under my budget. Finding wedding rings. And those oh so comfortable moments when one gets super frustrated because this is a big… Continue reading Pardon me While I get a bit Sentimental
Something shifted; somethings shifting
Before diving into the shifting of it all I am linking over to the Quilt & Tell Podcast. First congratulations to Debby Brown for her cover quilt and article in the upcoming issue of Quiltmaker. It's a stunner. I don't want to get the details wrong so I'm going to share Jay Duckworths Proptologist website… Continue reading Something shifted; somethings shifting
Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon
sometimes when memories pop through it's important to share them as in someway they led to where you are now. One summer a friends parents invited me along to northern Maine for a week away. One evening the local television station aired a documentary on Terry Fox who attempted to run across Canada in an… Continue reading Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon
Let’s Get Funky
Gratuitous Image to evoke HOT HOT HOT A number of friends local to Central Texas have mentioned that this is unusual weather. First the rain complete with lightning and thunder. Boom! Clap! Queue dripping sinuses from the mold. I did feel like I had moss growing around my feet. Right on the heels of the… Continue reading Let’s Get Funky
Cascade
That crack at the back of the drawer, splitting the back brace piece explained part of why opening/closing it is difficult. That and the bowing drawer bottoms. Sigh. When I bought this drawer unit it seemed perfect. The drawers are wide, and deep able to accommodate a lot of thread. I did not, however, give… Continue reading Cascade
I was a Little, Shall we Say, Nervous?
Not really. Kind of but ya know, I was. Linda Hahn messaged me a couple of weeks ago to be interviewed on It's Sew Road as one of the first teachers interviewed for Road to California in person in January, 2022. I had a great time talking with Matt & Linda, showed a few samples… Continue reading I was a Little, Shall we Say, Nervous?
Pitching
One Stitch at a Time Happy Monday Friends! What's on your quilting agenda this week? As of this moment there are some behind the scenes things to do that I'm excited about. I'm going to video quilting on the Handi Quilter Moxie quilting a quilt with rulers. I'm stupidly excited about having the ruler base… Continue reading Pitching
A Sneak Peek: Summer of ’79
Sneak Peeks are fun. When I think of the word "prompt" there are several things that come to mind: 1) feeding a line to an actor to nudge the memory2) offering hints or clues to help bring a memory to the surface or help a person remember3) a word or phrase used to evoke ideas… Continue reading A Sneak Peek: Summer of ’79
Spring Quilt Market: Virtual Style
Virtual Quilt Market (link to sign up) is this week, the intreped folks from Quilts, Inc have been working hard to get this event together coordinating all the vendors, presenters, and Schoolhouses together so that we can, once again, see all the new fabric lines, notions, machines, tools, patterns and in a limited way the… Continue reading Spring Quilt Market: Virtual Style
