Where creativity brings joy
We have a Cabin Fever Shop Hop going on in Indiana right now. It started on Friday, February 15th and runs until Saturday, February 23rd. There are nine shops participating around central and east-central Indiana. (The feature image is of The Quilter’s Nook in Versailles, …
On this Valentine’s Day I would like to share on my first quilts, a scrappy, pink log cabin. The very first quilt I made was a log cabin. I learned how to quilt by taking a class that taught this block. It is a great …
Pour Painting is a craft that has been very popular the past couple of years. Last year I noticed that one of my Facebook friends was posting many photos of her creations and I thought they were quite nice. The technique creates a contemporary looking, …
Like most other sewists and crafters, my New Year’s mindset focused on organization and inventory of unfinished projects. Everyone is talking about Marie Kondo right now, the organizational specialist who approaches clutter in living space with a spiritual mindfulness. I’m not there yet. The past …
I’m behind in posting but I wanted to share my bit of Sewing Sustainability for the month of January. I am working on a T-shirt quilt for a family member and after cutting away the image from the T-shirt front, there is a lot of …
I first was introduced to the idea to build my own cutting table from Sandy, blogger and podcaster at Quilting for the Rest of Us. Since then, I have seen many examples of the combined cutting table and craft storage on Pinterest. After giving some specific …
Like many of us, my resolution for the new year is to complete unfinished projects. During the holidays I was fortunate to have some days off that I could spend at home, which I used to organize my sewing room. I found three half completed …
Over the 2018 Christmas holiday season I was able to accomplish quite a bit of sorting of my sewing related projects. I have several things that are at least 50% completed. I regret that I had so many partially finished projects, but I know that …
I’ve given up buying non-fat Greek yogurt, in favor of making my own using the Instant Pot. If Dannon was still selling their Light and Fit Non-fat Greek yogurt in the chocolate raspberry flavor, I might never have considered making my own yogurt. The first …
Today I’m reviewing Roxanne’s Glue-Baste-It from the perspective of a quilter. I first purchased this product to use to improve the precision of my quilt construction. When sewing fabric pieces together to make blocks, I have found that the glue basting technique is very helpful …