Diamond Painting (FO and a New One)

I finished a larger-than-usual (for me) diamond painting, since last time.  There wasn’t much left to do, after I filled in most of it while Donald was travelling in July.  (He went to a figure-painting show in the Netherlands, then visited his family in Sweden.)  I needed a break from it, so set it aside.  […]

Sea Glass, String HSTs, and Magnifier

I’m back, and it hasn’t even been a month since the last entry!  😁 Nothing new is finished, but I have a few photos to share. First up, here are the string blocks waiting to become HSTs.  I’ve made sure to use a wide strip in the center, since that’s where they’ll be cut in […]

Quilt-Related Odds and Ends

Still in the “catching up” phase of blogging!  At this point, I’m down to the “odds and ends” section.  The bottom of the barrel, if you will.  😁 First up, the last quilty-ish “finish” since I went AWOL.  It’s not a full quilt or even a wall quilt, which is why it didn’t deserve a […]

Finished! Second “Tall Tales” Quilt

Did I write about this one already?  I probably mentioned that I had finally bound this quilt, but I don’t know if I posted photos or not.   To be honest, photos are almost pointless, because this quilt is so similar to the other version as to be nearly interchangeable.  Some of the “book covers” are […]

FO: “Amelia” Doily

I crocheted another doily earlier in the year– probably in the month or so before Mother’s Day in May.  (I remember giving it to Mom, but without looking it up, I’m not positive if it was for her birthday or Mother’s Day.) The pattern is “Amelia”, a design by Grace Fearon.  The thread is Alize […]

Finished! “Retro-Cali Ribbon Stars” Quilt

  This “ta-da” has been a long time coming, so I don’t really have much to say about it…   I started by making string blocks on the treadle.  (Wanting to sew strings on the Minnesota treadle was the whole reason for starting this project.)  I then transformed these string blocks into HSTs (two HST blocks […]

This is Getting Ridiculous!

Well, clearly I haven’t done a good job of keeping up with craft blogging!  I’m busier these days, but the problem really isn’t that I don’t have the time.  I waste time online each and every day, reading things that at best bore me and at worst leave me in a worse mood.   I have […]