Category: Just for Fun

  • Stitch Envy

    Whenever Sarah does a demonstration of our Crazy Shortcut Quilt techniques she mentions “stitch envy”. It happens during class when the students are quilting their squares using the decorative stitches of their sewing machines. They look at the quilters next to them and the stitches they have on their machines, and well, you get the…

  • Funky Fuzzy Shortcut Quilt

    This baby is my favorite – by far! I wanted to couch down some yarn instead of quilting my squares, and I dug through my stash and found this chunky funky fuzzy yarn – -isn’t it delicious? I’ve been using a narrow zigzag stitch to couch it down and it’s going slower than I thought…

  • Funky Shortcut Quilt

    I thought of a name for my new quilt…”Funky Shortcut”. I’ve wanted to try this harlequin type of cutting arrangement for a while, and I really, really love it with these fabrics!

  • Crazy Shortcake Quilt finds a Home

    While at Spring Quilt Market Sarah and I bumped into Maret from Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe in Anchorage several times! I love going all the way to Portland, Oregon to meet up with the Alaskans – lol! We showed her the Shortcake Quilt and offered to let it go live in her newly relocated…

  • Booties Part Three

    I was in Anchorage for a few days and I spent some time with Audrey. I brought up a small bucket of the things she’s used to playing with when she is with me, and here’s how that went: She dove into the bucket, first after her necklaces and then ended up dumping the whole…

  • Booties Part Two

    Using the tracing that I took of Audrey’s feet and some quilted muslin from a machine quilting class, I cut out my estimation of the pieces. I love estimating and I do it all the time 🙂 I pinned the pieces together and I could tell right away that I had overestimated! I could put…

  • Booties

    What happens when you try to hold steady a wiggly giggly baby with one hand and trace around her ticklish feet with the other hand? Chaos. And this kind of scribble: Heather Bailey has a free pattern for baby booties that I want to try. I’ll make a tester first, to see how they fit,…

  • The Contest

    I was motivated to make this quilt (Crazy Shortcake – details here..)by a contest that was posted on the Jolly Jabber blog. All the entries are posted here in this Flickr set. If you go to the Jolly Jabber Blog, you can vote on the 9 items entered. (I voted for the dress – LOL…