in addition to being a newby sewer, i'm a mother of seven and wife of one. i've been dragging my kids right along side me in this...

i am this close to being done with daughter #5's baby quilt. i missed her birthday by a few days (or maybe a week), but i can taste vi...

just another of my latest batch of 4sqs completed in october     this one's a bit soft and pastel-y compared to what i usuall...

i may not have been posting at all, but i have been sewing. jill and i have successfully reinstituted our friday morning sewing/quilting be...

i've tried several methods of marking my quilts for  handstitching: chalks, pencils, pens. no one method is perfect and i was unhappy wi...

summer, or at least the school break, is over. i thought summer would be a perfect sewing time since our over-heated desert summers are lik...

a look at what's going on on my dining table. it's become my (temporary) second sewing spot. i love having a dedicated spot upstai...

i took daughters #4 and #5 to the scrapbook/fabric store on friday evening before daughter #1's last soccer game of the season (yay!) to...

hello, blogland! baby and i were working on posts and thought we'd share a picture of ourselves while we're at it. she's makin...

thanks to general conference , i got so much done this weekend! i worked on whatever was available as i could through out the 8 hours of ...

i had a fabulous opportunity to get lots of project time this weekend: general conference . twice a year instead of regular sunday worship...

i've completed a round dozen of these babies now, with my baker's dozen almost done, too. for my nephew, ollie, whose nursery is ...

i've never had trouble with corners slipping on the blankets i've made as far as i know. no one's complained or mentioned it hap...

my mom had a saying that went "that's six and one half dozen of the other." it took me a few years to figure out that wh...