'Other Strange Things' Category

• Re-Upholstered Desk Chairs

  Apparently I have been watching too much HGTV, because our rooms are all looking old and tired. The kitchen remodel (which I love) also had the unfortunate effect of making everything else look worse. So, I am on an upholstery binge which I kicked off this morning by re-doing the ugly office chairs [...]

  August 6th, 2010

• 1 1/2 Years – 300 Posts

  When I started this blog….
  I only knew a couple of quilters — their quilts and methods were very different from mine.
  My sisters were the only other people I knew who did hand embroidery.
  When I shopped at the local quilt store for binding or backing fabric, the staff would make comments like “Why would you want [...]

  July 5th, 2010

• Meet Elvis

  For my birthday my son, Elliott, gave me a certificate for a kitten from the Humane Society. Business was brisk last Saturday when we stopped by — tons of people adopting pets, which was nice to see. There was only one very small kitten left, and we managed to fill out the paperwork [...]

  June 13th, 2010

• I Actually Won a Contest!

  Sam at Feeling Stitchy selected my lion quilt block as the winner in the yellow category of the Feeling Stitchy Rainbow of Stitches contest. I entered a quilt block in almost every rainbow color, and I think yellow was the category with the least number of entries. So….better odds for my lion, which [...]

  June 10th, 2010

• WIP Situation – Out of Control

  I thought this post would cheer up all other procrastinators and owners of unfinished projects.
  QUILTS WHICH WERE STARTED AFTER THIS BLOG BEGAN (12/08) AND ARE LANGUISHING IN THE SEWING ROOM
  Embroidered Wool Quilt Embroidered Circus Quilt Crayon & Embroidery Mother Goose Quilt
  QUILT TOPS WAITING TO BE QUILTED
  Ferris Wheel Simple Objects Hello Kitty String Star Ocean Waves [...]

  April 21st, 2010

• Elliott’s Hexagram Cookies

  Elliott uses this hexagram as his logo — it’s the tattoo on his favorite GI Joe character when he was little (Snake Eyes), and Elliott also has it tattooed on his forearm. Whenever I use a GI Joe theme for his birthday, I try to incorporate this design. Last year we had hexagram [...]

  April 2nd, 2010

• GI Joe Cubees

  Today I didn’t sew at all — I was too busy cutting out and putting together these fun Cubees from CyberDrone at deviantART. These are some of the decorations for my son’s family birthday party next weekend. It’s kind of silly (since Elliott is turning 28), but for years I have done either [...]

  March 27th, 2010

• And The Winner Is…..

  The winner of the Mini Quilt book and the vintage fabrics pictured last week is…..

  And, because I have more of all of the fabric pieces, we drew an additional name. This person will receive everything except the book. The second winner is…..

  Congratulations Kathie and Chris, and thanks everyone for participating and for your [...]

  December 22nd, 2009

• Give-Away Dilemma – Continued

  Thank you everyone for responding to my give-away dilemma question — your comments were both interesting and informative — and I enjoyed hearing all the different points of view.
  The purpose of the give-away was not to increase readership, but to celebrate with my current readers (commenting and non-commenting).  If the give-away prompts a non-commenting reader [...]

  December 20th, 2009

• Give-Away Dilemma

  Six months ago I had a 100th post give-away and several people made comments who did not have blogs of their own and who had never visited my blog before.  I didn’t care — I entered everyone’s name into the drawing, and one of these commenters won the give-away.  She sent me a nice e-mail [...]

  December 19th, 2009