Bears & Quilts!
Recently, I have been receiving requests for Bears and wanted to share a few projects with you. The Bear and pillow above were for a dear customer, Amy Klein, who had asked for a wall quilt for her foyer. When that was complete, there were scrap pieces left over...
“American Sewing Guild” Sewing Retreat
In a previous post, I mentioned that our Neighborhood Sewing Guild (Elgin Stitches of Time) recently held our first annual Sewing Retreat at the Hampton Inn, Aurora, IL. It began on a Thursday noon and ended on Saturday about suppertime. In this post, I'd like to...
How to Make a T-shirt quilt!
T-shirt quilts are fun to make! Supplies required: t-shirts, along with fabrics for the sashing, borders and backing. The t-shirt blocks also need to be fused with fusible interfacing, so you need enough yardage of fusible interfacing to fuse each block. (This...
Patterns and Christmas
Often during this busy season, we forget what and why we are celebrating! Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus. It is important that we pass down to our next generation the "patterns" taught in the Bible, and this "pattern" of celebrating the...
Quilt in a Day; Quilter’s Dream Retreat with Eleanor Burns
The "Quilter's Dream Retreat" last weekend was fabulous! It was held Dec. 5-7, 2013 at the Westin Hotel in Itasca, IL, sponsored by Fabrics Etc of Bensenville, IL (www.fabricsetc2.com) and Baby Lock, maker of fabulous sewing machines (www.babylock.com), and of...
