School has begun and I've been  under the spell of nostalgia for those busy, exciting first days of school when everything felt new and ...

I should be sewing autumn and winter designs, but I'm not. I'm sewing quilts with school themes. School has just begun in Lincoln, a...

I'm quite enamored of this latest mug rug pattern! The whimsical combination of hexies and cats makes me smile. Better yet, the sewing w...

Pumpkins need a pretty long growing season, but the pumpkins in this patch needed a full year to grow and ripen! I quite honestly may have s...

I've been struggling with this pumpkin table runner for several weeks, so I'm not going to talk about it today. I'll just say th...

It's the middle of July, the weather is hot and sultry, but Christmas fabrics are filling the shelves in all of the fabric stores. Those...

Ta-daa!! The ice skate pattern is finished! One mug rug ... ... and one table topper - or wall hanging, if you prefer.  Wait! You mi...

I found this on Facebook a few days ago. It fits me perfectly! I've definitely been cha-cha-cha-ing for quite a whi...

This week my brain has been functioning like summer traffic moving through road construction. The traffic is barely crawling and I keep runn...

"If wishes were fishes, we all have a fry." I could really use a vacation about now, but I'm afraid a real vacation will ha...

The Good Part Let's begin with the sewing progress, because that became the highlight of my week. I wasn't able to even enter my s...

Fabric requirements, templates, and layouts for various sizes of quilts from this pattern can be found in this free patttern on my Craftsy ...