Fret Not Yourself

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man;  true nobility is being superior to your former self. ~Ernest Hemingway Quiltin...

Chinese Coins VI (the yellow and white one) worked out better than I thought. Three different column widths are symmetrically placed. The Co...

Nothing will show on this bright quilt so I chose a diagonal grid. Simple. I thought it would be fast but for some reason has taken longer t...

 I bordered the stars with straight stitching. Each star has its own stitching. Lots of threads to tie off. Stars bordered with walking ...

Ok. I got sidetracked. Instead of working on Coins or Spiderweb, I finished a top for a dear friend who recently became a grandmother. No co...

As many of you know, I quilt on an older domestic Bernina with a fairly small throat plate. With a large quilt, it helps to stitch in the di...

Between this small quilt and the t-shirt quilt I haven't started any improv this month. But the quilting design has free-hand aspects. A...

I tried some different quilting on these spiderwebs. I used the walking foot to travel from point to point around each seam creating petal s...

I'm finally slow quilting. Not because I want to but the machine is messing up. This should have been a three-hour job but with all...

And this is the last of the five log cabin leader/ender projects from last year. Hooray! While it seemed helpful to have the tops ready to g...

The fourth small log cabin is quilted and bound. The top is from last year's leader/ender project . (There were five in all.) I...

Midnight Snacks is quilted and bound. The straight lines are 3/8" from the seam lines. Very simple. Midnight Snack quilt  As usu...

The first zigzag log cabin is quilted. Zig Zag Log Cabin I used a bit of this fabric in the New York Beauties . (Do you see it near ...