July 2, 2018

With daisy fabric in the house it wasn’t a struggle to choose fabric for Elizabeth’s card. And when we were first talking about what to make with “her” fabric she showed me a very ratty pair of pot holders I made in the first year I was quilting.

She now has a very functional pair of pot holders that I hope she will use!

June 29, 2018

Caye’s card is one of the bonus blocks from The Splendid Sampler series. This block, although paper-pieced, gave me a lot of trouble and I started over several times. I’m not sure, even now, that I got it right. We had a lovely visit with Caye, Paul, Frank and Willa earlier this month.

June 23, 2018

When three guys in the family all celebrate a birthday on the same day it was an easy choice to find one pattern and do it in three different colour ways. And the sentiment suits them all. From oldest (Ian) to youngest (Josh) with Tynan in the middle. The pattern is Happy Thoughts from the Splendid Sampler series.

June 21, 2018

Although the postings for Splendid Sampler II begin tomorrow I went back to a block from the first series for this card for Jenny.

I was able to use some fabric from a Guild Challenge that I didn’t participate in as the background. The lettering on the background is intentionally opposite so that no matter which way you are looking at the square you get a positive message.

Since I was working with a circle I used circles as my quilting motif.