My Creative Life - Quilts, Art, Weaving and More. Sunday, March 18, 2018. 64 Blocks and Decisions to be made. Sunday evening, after just a few minutes of making more crumb blocks, I decided to rest a bit. Gathering all the crumb blocks I counted them to see just how close I had gotten. Would you believe there are exactly 64 in that stack. Yes, I stopped at just the right spot.

January 9, 2018 16 Comments. My dad is a farmer. His father and grandfather were both farmers. Our ancestors in Europe were farmers. While visiting my dad last summer he started up his antique crank-start. The quilt top is all made from stash fabrics. It sure felt good to use up what I had on hand. Fly Away Home Pre-Sale! October 20, 2017. Leave a comment with your pay-pal a.

Saturday, November 14, 2015. The Beginning of the End. Global warming is not the primary problem in the World. We must be on our knees for every country that operates blindly. Today, our prayers must be for France and the pain her citizens are suffering. By the way, I did win that contest, but I would rather have been wrong. Turn on your TV! God have mercy.

For six years now, I have traveled to Waite Park, MN in July to spend a few days with some of the best friends I have ever known; a group of women that felt like forever friends almost immediately after our first meeting. My Grubers Retreat is a non-negotiable event on the calendar. But really, words cannot explain what this week means to me and does for me emotionally. She free-motion quilted like crazy, and she and I made micro quilts.

I feel like everything and nothing has been happening around here. I actually did have a plan to update in February, but that went completely out the window due to a impromptu trip to Kansas to help out family for a couple weeks. I did mention I was going to knit up a test knit shawl. Its a rather different design as its a center out triangle of 2 color brioche. The pattern has been released as Arrakis.

Quilting makes me skip for joy. Quilting makes me skip for joy. I also love to teach the art of machine quilting to others and inspire them to do their best work. I blog about art, quilts, garment making and life. Enjoy! Quilting Is A Contact Sport! Intro to Fearless Free Motion Quilting.

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