February 2015 – weeknight quilting

Scraps!

I have a lot of scraps. When I populated my new Raskogs, I did a scrap purge. I had to face the fact that I will not use a lot of the scraps I had saved. I saved about 75% of them and organized them by color. It was sad to see the rest go, butContinue reading “Scraps!”

The Birthday Card Project

Many of the people I love the most have their birthdays in the next few weeks. I want to make each one of them a little cross stitch on a card. Similar to the Pretty by Hand projects here. Mine won’t be as cute, most likely, but they will be filled with as much love.Continue reading “The Birthday Card Project”

#anythingnsew

I am motivated by getting time to sew. I get cranky and worried and no fun when I feel like my protected time on the weekend for sewing may evaporate. In the past few months I have gotten better. But I am an addict. In the best and the worst sense of the word. IContinue reading “#anythingnsew”

A trip to the museum… and then the fabric store.

A couple Saturdays ago my husband and I went to the Nelson Atkins museum here in Kansas City. I had read about this little exhibit: The exhibition, in Gallery P6, displays Italian, French and Spanish textiles influenced by this Middle Eastern trade and aesthetic tradition, spanning the 15th-17th centuries. Woven of sumptuous silk and exhibiting variedContinue reading “A trip to the museum… and then the fabric store.”

Carts!

Look at these things… I mean for reals, aren’t they awesome? These were about $100 from Ikea (the famous Raskog cart in a dark gray) and then my sweet husband put them together while we watched a few Doc Martins. I really do love them. They have given me lots of extra space everywhere inContinue reading “Carts!”

I love you more than…

This popped up in my blog feed last week and I fell in love. I took a bit of time this weekend to make one for me and a friend. It was the sort of project that is nothing but easy and fun! It took about an hour and a half per pillow, and IContinue reading “I love you more than…”