Introducing the Duke

It’s a new month, and I’m still working a little more than usual every day to get ahead of schedule for the end of July and beginning of August, when I plan to take some more time for “whatever”.  (Most likely some combination of quilt piecing, knitting, TV/movie watching, painting, doodling, gel print-making and collaging.) […]

Anilinky, Anyone?

This blog post contains a lot of rambling about a new (to me) product.  It’s probably not of interest to most people, but it’s what I felt like blogging about, so I’m going to go ahead and geek out, as they say… I’ll understand if you want to just check out the photos and skip the […]

New Year, Old UFOs!

I’ve been trying to finish up a couple of old UFO quilting projects, lately.  There are so many other new projects I’d like to start, but the backlog of UFOs was weighing on my conscience.  I’ll feel better with some of the old WIPs wrapped up and scratched of that mental list.   – – – […]

Welcoming the Juki into the Fold

There’s a new sewing machine in the house!  And this time it’s an actual new machine, not a “new” vintage machine.   I bought my “old” computerized sewing machine– a Brother Designio DZ2400– during a Black Friday sale in 2014.  It’s been a good machine, and it’s still going pretty strong.  So much so that I’m […]

Progress on the Crumbs and Words Quilt

No, still not finished, but making progress.  Every bit counts!   This isn’t quite where I left it: But it’s close!   Let’s back up a bit… Last time, I’d just finished putting the top and bottom padding/margins on the individual words.  After that, I put in the spacers between the words.  (I think it was something […]

Welcome, Singer 15!

There’s a new old sewing machine in the house.   That is, a new-to-me vintage sewing machine.   It’s been here in the house for a while, actually, but what with one thing and another, I haven’t gotten around to writing about it until now.   Okay!  Confession:  I actually wrote most of this blog post back in […]

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 […]

Words and Strings

As mentioned in the last entry, I’ve reached the point in the crumb quilt where I needed to jump in and start piecing letters and words.  The first few words’-worth 😜 of letters went pretty well, I think.  Then I thumped over a speed bump and slowed right down.   It might have been that those […]

The Minnesota Comes to Alabama

Warning! 😉 This is a particularly long blog post.  It’s essentially everything I know and want to remember about a new-to-me sewing machine, so it probably has a lot more information than anyone else (except possibly a budding fan of vintage sewing machines) would ever want or need.  Tl;dr version:  I bought a treadle sewing machine […]