Quilting
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How to Survive a Quarantine Without Losing Your Mind
This post contains affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission if you make a purchase using these links. As an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Because I live just 29 miles from Kirkland, WA, or what the LA Times affectionately calls, ”the U.S. epicenter of COVID-19,” I hear daily speculations about the possibility — and some are saying probability — of a mandated quarantine in the very near future. So what would that look like? How long would it last? And how on earth do you survive a quarantine without losing your mind? I’ve never been forced to stay in my home before, but I’ve…
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Flannel Rag Quilt Tutorial
Updated March 2, 2020 A few years back, I offered to teach the women at our Home Skills Fellowship how to make a rag quilt. I hoped at least three or four women would be interested, but twenty showed up, and of those, half had never sat at a sewing machine before. But that wasn’t a problem with this particular project, because this rag quilt is the most forgiving quilt in the world. You can’t go wrong with this. In fact, sewing ignorance is actually a plus, because the hardest part for those who already know how to sew is remembering to expose your seams instead of hide them. But I’m getting…
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Those Christmas Stockings
Guess what? Only 360 days till Christmas! Anybody out there ready? No? 🙂 I’ve had some requests to share the pattern for the Christmas stockings I posted on Facebook. And I planned to do that — to just tell you the name of the pattern and maybe post a picture or two. But it seems there’s not one mention on my pattern, anywhere, of the name or copyright of the thing. And I’ve had it for 25 years. So … with my apologies to the pattern creator, I’ll have to show-and-tell you how to make them. I made my first pair of these in 1985, the year Dave and I…
