Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Monday, January 15, 2024

Martin Luther King Jr. Day/

 I've spent this day of public service working on quilts ... one for a nursing home donation, and some for the Fire and Police departments. And also a scrappy dust cover for a friend's vintage sewing machine.




Friday, December 22, 2023

THE TOOTSIE TOOL

 Years ago when I was buying fabric directly from manufacturers, Rick and I found a fun offer from Moda Fabrics: The Tootsie Tool. We downloaded the PDF and bought a few bags of Tootsie Roll Pops. We printed the downloaded page, punched two holes where indicated, slipped a Tootsie Pop Stick into the holes and handed them out to our customers ... they were a hit and brought many chuckles. I had a sudden memory of this when wondering what I might do next here in the blog, and was eventually able to remember the simple name and found it on the internet (after several mis-hits erroneously searching Tootsie Roll Wrapper ... but there are craft ideas for those as well!)

Enjoy the nostalgia of this memory, and the "Tasty Tool for Quilters." Here's the PDF link in print large enough to be useful AND fun. If you come up with another way to use the tool, I invite you to share it here in the comments 😊





Wednesday, December 13, 2023

ROTC Granddaughters

 A friend of ours has two granddaughters who are members of ROTC, and asked me to make quits for them. It was my pleasure. What made the quilts even more special is the letter he wrote to each of them to serve as the quilt labels. That he wrote his messages in cursive makes the quilt even more 'vintage' to our generation's time. 

One granddaughter plays golf and jumps out of planes as a member of the air corps.So the back of her quilt features Snoopy the Flying Ace,  The other wrestles as a member of the Army ROTC and her quilt back shows a butterfly's wide wing span!

It was an honor to make quilts for these young women!







 








Thursday, November 2, 2023

Step 5: the Front is finished.

Too big to lay it out on the floor. Size is 60" square;  Now to make the back!

Step 4: ADDING THE OUTER BORDERS

I made the borders the same way I started this quilt,  using leftover 2 1/2" strips on the batting in Stitch 'n Flip style. This gave me a 10 1/2" border, but left the corners open ... so I made 10 1/2" pinwheels to complete the top.