miscellaneous

Last week, I stopped working on a quilt. I’d been working on this quilt for two weeks but no matter what I did, I just couldn’t get it to work. The background embroidery was too busy, the colors didn’t work, the layout was off… So I put it aside, saying I could come back to […]

I thought I’d finished with the quilt top on Monday when I decided that the image was missing a moon. Or a green sun. Anyway, a circle seemed to be called for so I sewed one on before starting the quilt sandwich (I love that phrase). Topstitching has now begun. The round indentation around the

I ran out of dog treats and decided to try my hand at making my own. How hard can it be to make them compared, with, say, a three-layer cake? Well, they were super easy to make. And, um, pretty tasty, even for the human palate. Recipe here.

I was really struggling with my last quilt top, so I decided to put it aside. The main themes – even the layout – made their way onto another piece of fabric, and a new quilt was born. The wonderful thing about having a lot of time for this project is that I just don’t
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