Vintage Sheets All Cut Up

First, thanks for the opinions on the previous post!  I’ve decided diagonal and larger (more usable size), so I have 8 more blocks to make.  I’ll be working on that again…someday. A week or two ago I received back my selection from the Vintage Sheet Fat Quarter Swap I joined.  There’s nothing like getting new-to-me [...]

Need Opinions!

I have quilt blocks, but now I need to figure out what to do with them!  So, commenters to the rescue, right? I made this set of blocks mostly out of the Big Box of Free Fabrics (love them!) and using this book:  Simply Charming I bought the book specifically for this pattern, although it’s [...]

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

Yay!  I finally have access to the computer with photos!  I hope to have some quilt block pictures to share tomorrow, but in the meantime I thought I’d show Round 1 of our Colorado vacation pictures.  (I know, I can hear the excitement from here b/c other people’s vacation photos are simply The. Best.)  Anyway, [...]

Updates

Just a couple updates: *Julia has been holding onto her quarter/nickel for 8 days and counting now.  Talked to the doctor today and she said call back in a week if we still haven’t seen it and we’ll consider more x-rays. *Elena is healthy, but still hasn’t recovered mentally from her sick stomach episode on [...]

My Poor Girls and Fun Nine Patches

I’ve been meaning to get up some Colorado pictures, but I haven’t had the opportunity yet.  Elena has been struggling off and on with some stomach issues, although she seems to finally be on the mend. And Julia.  Ahhh, my poor Julia.  She apparently ate a coin.  We know from x-rays that it really was [...]

32.5 pounds

Wow.  Just wow.  I will never be able to say I’m not lucky again! I was at a quilt shop at the end of last week and talking to one of the employees about wanting to make a string quilt but that I was still in the ‘collecting’ phase of that quilt.  One of the [...]