Really? Pillows? Y’all… I must have gone crazy. It’s the only explanation. Joann Fabrics was having a sale. I don’t even know why I was looking at their website. It’s not like they’re my go-to fabric store, and to be honest, their website is pretty terrible. Either way, I was on Joann’s site. I noticed …
It’s February! How’s it going, fellow Average Quilters? We’re about a week into February. It’s a good time to look back at the previous month, compare our progress vs our expressed goals, and tweak things to ensure success. Yeah… About That So, remember how last month I talked about my word of the year, and how I …
Halfway serious question here: do quilt alongs ever give you anxiety? They do for me, sometimes. It’s not that they’re difficult, necessarily. It’s more like I have trouble relaxing into them, especially if I know what’s going to come next. My husband says it’s because I’m always thinking about “the next.” In other words, I …
Cut a strip, then subcut into… If you’re an Average Quilter, then you’ve made a quilt top. In the making of that quilt top, you probably had some leftover fabric. There might be some yardage, maybe a fat quarter, or even a weird shaped chunk of fabric with bits missing in the middle. And of …
Ready for a Challenge? Sometime in December 2021, I came across an Instagram post on All People Quilt’s feed that proclaimed the imminent start of the All People Quilt UFO Challenge for 2022. To be fair, I don’t have a lot of UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) as compared to a lot of crafty types, but I’m …
Sometime in 2021, I joined the Ruby Star Society quarterly fat quarter club through Fat Quarter Shop (FQS). I joined because I love the modern designs of the fabrics put out by Ruby Star Society and I wanted to support them, but I didn’t have enough money to buy every bundle of fabric designed by every designer they …
Resolution Season The New Year has been upon us for a couple of weeks now. Some folks call it “resolution season” due to all the folks who make New Year’s resolutions every year. Even though so many of us fail with achieving these resolutions we set, each and every year, like a bad habit, we …
Twenty Twenty-One came to a close last night. And as with every year, I looked back and considered what I’d like to take into the new year, and what I’d like to leave behind. Today is the first day of 2022, so this is yet another new beginning. As part of this new beginning, I …
