My Twelve by Twelve Colorplay quilts arrived home this week, after a long period of traveling the world without me.  Most of you w...

A few weeks ago, my friend Loretta (aka Mrs. Pom of Pomegranates and Paper ) and I launched a new project that we ca...

It's been raining!   After our long drought here in Northern California, the rain is so welcome!  Yesterday I was waiting in the car ...

I can't remember where I came across the concept of "mood boards."  I'm not sure where the name comes from, but the con...

This morning I headed out to the small town of Occidental, which is a little funky Sonoma County town.  Its main s...

     I've been participating in Danny Gregory's online " Sketchbook Skool " over the last year ...

 I'm usually big on holidays, but Halloween has never been one of my favorites.  I don't like to be scared for one thing, so I th...

  I will admit that I've always had a sense of discomfort about college sororities.  I know it's not based on much personal exper...

I've written here before about the quilt retreat I attend several times of year, at a beautiful retreat center here in Sonoma County ...

Yep, I'm still off quilting on my retreat.  But in the meantime, I have to ask you: do you have a spiralizer? If not, you're go...

I'm actually away on a quilting retreat this week (the one I go to twice a year, at the gorgeous Bishop's Ranch here in Healdsburg) ...

      I mentioned that I'd been up in the Seattle area a while ago. I was in Bremerton, to be exact, just across the Puget Sound from S...