Spring Sewing Season

Spring Intensives are coming up in May. What are Intensives? At the school where I teach, the week before Christmas and the last week of school in the Spring, students don’t attend regular classes. (Honestly, what really gets done in classes at that time?)

Rather, each student selects from a menu of classes and attends that one course for the entire week. I am offering SEWING (AKA Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension) once again.

The students really seem to enjoy making a series of small projects, building skills along the way. We spend time on sewing machine basics, seam allowance, pressing and ironing, turning, etc. Four days doesn’t sound like a lot, but it does add up to around 20 hours of actual instruction and practice. One can learn a lot in that amount of time.

Again, an appeal: If you have leftover precut squares (5″ or 10″), or fat quarters, that you would like to be rid of, we would use them for these student projects. I am not asking for free, but would pay for them and shipping if we can make a deal. The students LOVE the variety! You can leave a comment or email me. Thank you so much for considering us.

(Late) March Potholders

The Scrappy Sampler top (my version) is at the quilters. Hope to have it to share soon. In the meantime, I made a pair of potholders (slightly different sizes, due to quilt math).

It is a great way to use up small pieces, units or even entire blocks at the end of a quilt.

Joyful Easter Season

If you would like a Christ-centered Easter experience, consider joining me for General Conference.

In a loud, hurried, sometimes frightening world, the peace and hope you can experience through General Conference is beyond value.

Baby Quilt c. 1947

While visiting my parents in rural Colorado, my mother decided to go through her cedar chest.

Among other treasures, I saw for the first time, her baby quilt, made for her by her Grandmother.

This is the same woman responsible for the blocks in the BUTTERFLY QUILT.

While the quilt shows its age, the workmanship still shines through.

Scrappy Sampler Sew Along: Final Blocks

This week I completed my final blocks for the  2026 Sew Along: Scrappy Sampler.

Well, I completed the block count for the middle size option. The friendship star block just didn’t appeal to me, so I found another option. Using THIS TUTORIAL, I make a 12″ bear paw variation. There wasn’t enough of any of the solid pink fabrics to make the center squares for the paw, so I used two different fabrics and created HST as an option.

Sashing and inner borders next. There is a lot to them, so it might be two weeks before I can report on that step.