Beach Day

I was at my sewing machine when my beach buddy called to tell me high tide was midday. Our north shore beaches are a bit Rocky and swimming is best in the four hour window around high tide. Even then, I need water shoes to wade in far enough. So no art happened yesterday. Even

A burst of cool weather

Made it a perfect day to make quilting progress. This pattern is Scrap Crystals by Bonnie Hunter. I had set it aside for a few years but I now have enough blocks to make a roughly twin sized quilt. I enjoy making scrappy quilt blocks of all kinds, but my energy wanes when I get

Now what?

I put together these blocks from leftovers from the Rhododendron Trail mystery quilt and left them alone for a while. I got this far but it’s not rectangular enough for a toddler quilt so I need to figure out how to add some length to the top and bottom. I am having a hard time

This and That

Life get busier in March, with gardening and indoor spring cleaning added to the to do list. Nevertheless, I am getting creative efforts pushed along. A quilt ready to bind. Pattern is Hunters StringStar by Bonnie Hunter. Her original was red and white but I thought blue and yellow might be interesting. It was very

Quilty update

I made for of these string blocks this week to send off to Covered in Love. Another longstanding quikt tradition is making quilts for the sick, the homeless, the dying. These quilts help soften the sterility of the hospital setting for dying patients and their families. I am starting to accumulate a stack of quilts