Swooze's Quilts and Tall Tales

Another GO giveaway. Go Check it out!! http://aquiltinglife.blogspot.com/2010/08/hexagons-and-go-giveaway.html

GO Giveaway Paulette over at Sweet P Quilting is having a Go Cutter giveaway. She's also doing some great tutorials on it. Go check her...

Stash Report - August 22, 2010 In spite of that 100 yard leap from the wagon I made earlier this year I do care about busting stash. I have...

Sitting and Sewing I sat and sewed with Babs . tirane and Nancy last weekend. I finished piecing these blocks and another set of 12 in anim...

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...or Send Me To a Fabric Sale I received an e-mail from the Golden D'Or announcing their big 30% off pre-in...

Design Wall Monday On my mission to bust my animal prints here are two more BQ's. I started making the teal one for my aunt and decided...

Round Robin I participated in another round robin. This one had one international participant. The base of the piece was to represent all th...

Fuzzy Driving When you are driving down a black topped road you know how things look fuzzy from the heat rising from the road? It causes op...

Design Wall Monday I am working on busting my animal prints. I had this teal in my stash but lacked 1/2 yard to make another BQ. I venture...

Strip Stacks Topped With the additon of some 30's repros and neutrals I turned that rejected backing into 3 45x60 quilts. They all look ...

My Sewing Group Met Today I dropped Mom's civil war top off to be quilted. I didn't take a picture of it but my friend did. Maybe ...

Sewing Retreat with Mom When I was at my folks last summer Mom and I went to a quilt store and got a free pattern for a flag wall hanging. ...

Walking the Dog When I first got to my folks my mother asked me to come look out the front door. This lady was walking her dogs. I thought.....

Rows of Blooms I am assembling rows now. Will press them all really well before final assembly. I want this done before I leave for home. ...

Bloomer's Progress Here are the completed blocks for the quilt my mother and I are working on. We started assembling the top last night...

Sewing in NY I arrived in NY this past Monday and am staying at my parents house. I will be here for 2 weeks and hoped to get some sewing ti...

Happines Is... Finding just enough pieces of fabric in my scrap bin to make the binding for my Saratoga Lights.

Coping I am leaning toward a coping strip aka innner border.

Strip Stacks Remember that bag of something I showed? That was a pieced backing that was made for a love quilt that the LAer rejected becaus...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...not necessarily in that order The bad. My friend noticed a turned block....then I noticed a second.....thir...