I'm often asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" To be truthful, I don't usually know the origin of a design, but this part...

Sometimes I struggle for days or weeks to come up with a new pattern idea. Other times, the idea finds me and forces itself to be made. This...

I am so excited to have this little wall hanging finished at last! I can't ever remember having had so many delays in making one pa...

I've been sewing the last few friendship stars for my autumn village quilt, today. It's all assembly line work, so my mind has wande...

This has been such a good week. Our son is doing very well. He's home in his own apartment and he'll be going back to work part t...

On Monday, my son had surgery to remove a small tumor from his lung. We expected it to be a reappearance of a previous liver cancer, and it ...

I've been waiting for a stack of autumn fabrics to arrive so I can finish up the wall hanging I started last week, but twiddling my thum...

It isn't very nice, I know, but I was thrilled when last week's thunderstorm caused an electrical outage in my granddaughter's n...

I'm seeing sunflowers everywhere I go. Silk sunflowers in the craft stores, fabric sunflowers in quilt shops, and sunflowers at the farm...

After three months of living with a disaster in our front yard, all water issues are resolved, we have a brand new flower garden, the hou...

I keep waiting for this summer to end. I would love to keep the sunshine and warmth, but if leaving summer means leaving the craziness behin...

Some designs are intentionally planned for a specific purpose, some suddenly appear out of nowhere, and still others are inspired by pur...

It's July, and it may be hot and humid in Nebraska, but it really is time to start thinking about Christmas projects. I had planned to...