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Anchor Baby Quilt

Last weekend I attended a baby shower for a friend of mine, she and her husband are expecting their first child in a few months. They aren’t finding out if the baby is a boy or girl so I decided to make a gender neutral baby quilt.

I used six colors, white on white and a [...]

Quilt for Auction

This spring my Mom mentioned she might like to make a quilt for the NWIC T’laneq – which roughly translates to A Celebration. It’s an annual fundraising event the college puts on, inviting several dozen supporters. They ask for donations for a silent auction as well as a live auction, which is held during the [...]

Japanese Fabric

It took forever but I finally managed to get my husband to get me fabric in Japan. I had to do some searching online to figure out where he would have to go to buy it – he wasn’t really interested in locating a fabric store, the video game places had much more appeal to [...]

Star Pillows

Last week my Mom organized a quilt class to be held at her office. She invited several people but a few had colds and so only a few of us ended up participating. At the class she taught us how to make star pillows using the strip piece technique, and after I finally caught on [...]

Blurbs & Secret Projects

1. I got April Fool’ed before 8AM! I fell for a “I’m getting married” facebook note. Hey, I live in a hotel and barely know the day of the week, much less the actual date!
2. I had a dream our property manager found us a place in Japan and insisted we would love it. He [...]

Secret Project Update

A couple of weeks ago I would have said that if you walked into the house you would instantly know what the secret projects we’ve been working on are and that amazingly enough my husband didn’t realize. Well call me naive because he finally confessed that he’s known all along! He didn’t know how big [...]

Shop Hop Day 2

On to day two of our Shop Hop: Cruisin’ the Texas Coast excursion! We had planned on going to two of the shops then doing a third day of the shop – especially after hearing there was a new quilt shop but they weren’t participating in the hop. We figure we’d stop there in addition [...]