I'm really not into the whole concept of Black Friday—wake up way too early to drive to the mall to fight for a parking space to fight c...

Boy, it's snowing like crazy here today! Luckily I ran all my errands yesterday. I needed to mail a bunch of orders so I had to go out a...

I spoke to the recipient of this quilt yesterday and she checks here frequently on my progress, so this post is partly for her and partly fo...

Cleaned my studio...check Cut out more sachet stacks (a customer bought out my supply)...check Worked on the baby quilt (getting there)...ch...

Here are some pictures of the custom baby pillow I'm working on. The person who commissioned it sent me fabrics that she had leftover fr...

The new batch of tissue cozies I've been working on this week is almost done. Yesterday I chose button combinations to match the fabrics...

And no, not the political pre-election kind :) Snow! Very early-in-the-season snow! An icy leaf I woke up early (like 4-ish) this morning be...

I had a great meeting with Cristin Powers of GreenBeing last week and I'm going to be selling some of my things on consignment in her n...

I don't buy myself presents very often but it was my birthday last week and I've been good lately (hee!). So, I bought myself a pinc...

I finished the embroidery on Saturday and then soaked and washed the finished blocks to remove the storage dirt and transfer lines. I also w...

I was getting ready to go out this morning, ironing a blouse to wear in my studio which is right next door to my bedroom. Sienna started meo...

Look at this cutie. One of a pair of vintage stamped-for-embroidery baby bibs I won on Ebay last week. They arrived yesterday and I love ...

I woke up suddenly at 2 am this morning. Amaya, one of my cats, was sitting on my bedside table looking out the open window and hissing. The...

Check out the Daily Swatch this week on True Up: All Fabric, All the Time . It's children's week and they'll be featuring photos...

I've been photographing and listing buttons on my website like crazy, so many now that I've had to create another page in the plast...

Here's what I'm thinking the quilt will look like (sketch done in Photoshop using swatches from the fabric store website that have b...

Another finished block: I should be finished with the embroidery this week. All the blocks are at least halfway done with most needing just ...

Well, the quilt shop didn't have the fabric I wanted, although they did have another colorway. That was enough to check on the shade of ...

It was a very cool, rainy weekend, and the leaves are starting to change colors and fall. I'll soon be adding raking leaves to my to-do ...

I usually talk about the fun parts of living in the country—the garden, the birds, the peace and quiet. This past week I've been doing o...