This is a box of letters–one of many boxes of letters and cards. In fact, I have almost every piece of correspondence written to me since I was a small child. What in the world I am supposed to do with all of them! Part of me says just keep them. I have had them [...]
I joined a quilting group and went to my first work session today. It was really good. I wanted to do something that fed my need to contribute to this world, meet some new people, and maybe pick up a few sewing tips. The group is through my church, and the blankets are distributed through [...]
I seem to have a love/hate relationship with clutter, specifically piles–piles of paper. No matter how hard I try there is always somewhere in the house with a little cluster of stuff that does not have a home/needs to be read/dealt with. I just spent the last two hours working on the “office.” We moved [...]
I finished the second blanket today and even had time to sew two little bags. Here is the blanket. Same design as the other one just different fabric. I have been trying different places in the house to take pictures of these blankets and have not yet found anything that works really well. This is [...]
I am super pleased with the blanket I made today–same fabric as the earlier one, so no new pic though. I used 10″ squares, and the finished project was 26″ x 34″. While fleece is a fairly forgiving fabric with which to sew, making the squares as square as possible is key. My wonderful husband, [...]
We recently visited the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia (FCMV) outside of Staunton, and I would highly recommend it if you are in the area. Here is one of the pics I took, and there are more on my Flickr page. I do have to say that we almost did not go though. I had [...]
My husband’s grandmother, Garnet Elizabeth Mongold, died this morning; she was 88. She is survived by 9 children, 20 grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren. Wow! I can’t help but reflect on life, what it means, and how we do/do not impact those around us and the world as a whole. My deepest thanks to all those [...]
I made this blanket tonight in about four hours.The fabric is from JoAnn Fabric. It is for a baby shower present, but I wanted something that wasn’t too frilly and could be used by the child past infancy. Considering I have never made anything like this nor worked with fleece before, it turned out o.k. [...]
I am what you would call a beginning sewer. I have taken one class at the community center about five years ago, and just wing it with most of my projects. So far, I have made some basic things like pillows, curtains, and cushion covers (more about those later). I am making two baby blankets [...]
I love to garden. There is something extremely satisfying about having your hands in the Earth and watching plants grow. I have to admit though that I find our current yard a bit overwhelming. We have about 3 acres–two in the back are heavily wooded, and we can’t do much with that due to HOA [...]
