A Little of Everything

This post has a little of this and a little of that.  (I’m trying to get back into the habit of posting more often!) Kuretake Granulating Watercolor A while back, I wrote about the Kuretake so-called granulating watercolors, which seem to be more about color separation than granulation (though they do granulate, too).   I think […]

Relaxing Weekend

New String Quilt Project This was just a relaxing weekend.  I watched a couple of movies, we played Scrabble, and I spent some time having fun in the craft room.  I trimmed down a stack of string blocks to give me something to do while I watched part of a movie.  Here they are before […]

Last Week of January

I can’t wait for my mini version of the 3 Materials Challenge to be over.  A wiser person would probably just have thrown in the towel by now, realizing that it wasn’t working and not worth the effort, but I’m too stubborn.  It’s only a few more days, so I’ll just keep going until it’s […]

Ready for Something Different

I Want to Do This, That, & the Other! There are so many things I want to try, start, do—and so many other things that I should do, need to do, must do.   One of the many things calling my name is string quilting on the treadle sewing machine.  It’s been a while, and I […]

Strings & Treadles

Neutral Strings for “Cherry Crunch” Apart from a couple of evenings of diamond painting (no photo, but I think I’m about halfway through), craft time lately has been spent working on the string project.  That means: time spent at the treadle string-piecing those “wild neutrals”… then time at the cutting mat, trimming them down into […]

Crayon Resists & a String Project

Time for another craft update! Vintage Sheet Quilt The vintage sheet project is at a standstill.  I finished sewing the large nine-patch units, but the next step is quilting them, and before I can do that, I need to get the current quilt off the frame.  I’ve been putting it off, because I just haven’t […]

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 […]

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 […]

October Catch-Up

This blog has been quiet for the past month-and-a-half.  What with one thing and another, it hasn’t felt like the time to write.  Donald was away for a while to attend his father’s funeral and spend some time with the rest of his family in Sweden.  Now that he’s back home again and we’re returning […]

Treadle Update, Mostly

Here I am again, trying to do better than one blog post per month… 😅 The first topic for today is a bit of a weird one.  Remember those mysterious paper circles (“confetti” with something inside) I found in a small box with the spare needles for the Minnesota?  Here’s the photo again, for a […]