It's a satisfying feeling to finish a project, and last week I finished TWO! A few weeks ago, I started this piece, based on a textil...

This is SO worth watching!

Meet Jake, my friend Beth's dog. He's old and has a number of ailments, but we call him the miracle dog because he just keeps on g...

Remember Phyllis Schlafly? Anti-feminist, foe to the Equal Rights Amendment, who believes that a woman cannot have a career and raise a fam...

I was awake into the wee hours this morning, because I could not put down a wonderful novel: "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel ...

Yeah, I know that looks like a mysterious mess, but I thought I'd share the beginning stages of a new project. For my design workshop,...

Free motion quilting is one of those things that quilters seem to either love or avoid. I know a number of quilters who've been pretty...

I have not been able to make it to my ongoing Practical Design workshop in several months, due to vacations and family events and such. So ...

The other night, Roger and I were lingering at the kitchen table after dinner. Caroline had gone upstairs to immerse herself in a drawing...

I'm continuing to enjoy experimenting with my Nikon D80 camera, and I'm having great fun (and learning a lot) posting and viewing...

We are trying to enjoy the last few days of summer vacation (school starts this coming wednesday) so Caroline and I decided to have an art...

Yesterday, Roger and I celebrated our 15th anniversary. My gift to him was this little quilt (it's about 10x13) and I had such fun ma...

Well, the Olympics have officially begun, and in honor of our Quilting Olympics Mathea has designed a button to advertise your participat...

I've long had the same feeling about the idea of creating my own fabrics with various surface design techniques that I had about learn...

Four years ago, knitter and blogger-turned-author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka Yarn Harlot) came up with the brilliant idea of participating ...

If you haven't stumbled onto this book -- Simply Stunning Woven Quilts by Anna Faustino (C&T Pub. 2008) -- you'll want to ta...

Finally, after a brief blogger glitch, over at Twelve by 12 we've been able to reveal the quilts for our August 1 challenge. Brenda ...

We are headed out this morning to spend a few days in Mendocino, visiting family and hanging out at the beach and (for Caroline's high...

One of the great side-benefits of attending workshops and retreats is that you see your fellow students using tools and products you'd...