• Scrappy Plates Part Three

    If you’re making a Scrappy Plate Quilt, part three is ready to download.  Just think, by next month you could have a finished quilt.  Some are starting to show up on my Flickr group. Scrappy Plate Instructions Part Three My own Scrappy Plate quilt just came back from Lynne my quilter and just look the quilting!   Don’t you love the quilting? If you look at the last photo you can see a bit of the scallop line traced with a water erasable marker and the border quilting.  I’ll show you more as soon as the binding is on. If you don’t want a scalloped border you can complete your…

  • Marcel

    I sent my husband to the vet to pick up medicine for Bitsy and look what he brought home… His name is Marcel… …and he’s 7 years old. His owner is in the hospital dying and Marcel needs a new home.  That’s all my husband had to hear… he brought Marcel home. He’s very sweet, a little shy and he’s spent the last month at the vet just waiting for the right person to want him.  My husband thinks it was meant to be and there’s no doubt in his mind that Marcel was waiting for us. Marcel’s had more than his share of hard times.  He once got caught…

  • Valdani Colors…What’s your favorite?

    Valdani has more colors than you ever thought possible, breathtaking colors that make you want to own them even if you don’t stitch.  Each new color is more lovely than the last.  It’s like opening a huge box of crayons each time we get a delivery. Just look at these Valdani Pearl Cotton collections I added to the website.   Aren’t they pretty?  If you enlarge the pictures you can hold them in your hand…well, almost.   Colors go in and out of stock at Valdani quickly and because this thread is hand dyed we may have to wait a month or two before some colors are back in stock.  I…

  • Warning! Watch out for the Dresden Bug!

    This little bug can be hazardous.  She may look innocent, but once you get her she’ll give you Dresden fever… …and then look at what can happen!    Kim came to work today and collapsed.  She collapsed from the weight of all the Dresden Plates she made over the weekend. She got the bug! Plates were flying everywhere in the studio.  Poor Chelsea tried to help but didn’t really know what to do… It all started when the bug got into Kim’s sewing room.  That bug made her so feverish she couldn’t stop sewing…not even to fix dinner for her poor family.   She’s been sewing all weekend and her…

  • Priceless iPhone Photos

    Lily visits the dentist office My granddaughter Lily waiting for her Dad at the dentist.   Wonder what she’s thinking? Click on the photo to enlarge…her face says it all. Thank heavens for the iPhone. Anne

  • Sliced…Have you heard about it?

    I love watching “Project Runway” and “Project All-stars”.   I don’t always agree with the judges but that’s part of the fun.  I sit here in my studio, comment away on what they say and no one’s the wiser.   No one’s the wiser until now.  Along came this new online show from Moda called …             …and I’m going to be one of the “guest” judges!  Me!  A judge!  Yep…It’s my big chance!!! S l i c e d: the newest competition from Moda Bake Shop! Enter the competition and you could win some amazing prizes and maybe you’ll be crowned the next Moda Bake…