I will freely admit that I was raised in a family that felt it was important to be well-mannered. Manners, I was told at a young age, are the grease that turns the wheels of polite society. Miss Manners’ columns in the paper were frequently read aloud so all would know the rulings on various [...]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Bill and I have been working on three bed quilts for a client on the Isle of Man. It’s the first time we’ll have our quilts on the Isle of Man and it’s gotten me thinking of other places in the world that our quilts now reside. Most [...]
A comment from a Craft Nectar reader prompted me to write about the pros and cons of owning a long-arm quilting machine. Initially I wrote a post and then decided that I should invite Heidi Kaisand of APQS and Gina Halladay, a Gammill dealer, to give you their points of view as well. So although [...]
May I tell you all about my lovely Friday afternoon? The lead up to it began a couple of weeks ago when I got an email from a FunQuilts fan from Germany who was coming to run in the Chicago Marathon. OK, I thought. You have my attention. It turns out that this woman is [...]
Swamped with commissions and finishing a book, I took a pile of quilt pieces, an iron and an ironing board into our sitting room last night to watch the second season of the wonderful PBS show Craft in America while still getting a little work done. As an aside, I am working on a full-bed-size [...]
