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Monday, March 18, 2024

Family Through The Weekend!


Somehow we fit it all in.

I had both of my sons - and grandson time - and Hubster Dave's 64th birthday - and plenty of workshop time with the Richmond Express gals all through the weekend.

I am exhausted.  But SO HAPPY!

Casden and Jeff came up on Saturday afternoon to hang out with Jason and we had a family dinner - cooked on the blackstone and Casden got to spend the night with us, which was so wonderful.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

A Day of Many Triangles!


It was a day of many triangles - MANY triangles!

But we made them so easy with the use of my Essential Triangle Tool!

The key objective for the day was to build variety by cutting from short strip sets.  No more than 8 repeats per strip set - we want VARIETY when these blocks start coming together so the same thing is not next to the same thing too often, etc.

You know how it goes!  FABRIC MUST NOT TOUCH ITSELF! LOL!

Friday, March 15, 2024

March String Madness!


The Richmond Express is chugging along!

We started our Emerald City workshop from my book String Frenzy yesterday - and as string quilts are my favorite thing on this planet - it was so much fun to see folks digging in and learning how fun simple string units could be - 

And there are so many things you can do with them.

Strings are so versatile.  You can cover any shape, trim them to any size, combine them with traditional units, use them as block corners, centers, setting blocks, and borders.

This is not your grandmother's string quilt!

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Family Shenanigans!


There has been something in the works for about the past month and I can now finally talk about it!

Who do you see here with Hubster Dave and me?

Son JASON is here!
As I said - we have been planning this for weeks and this morning I drove to Charlotte to pick him up after an overnight flight and sneak him home.
It was a total birthday surprise as he thought I was out hitting estate sales with my friend. Martha! LO l! It's great to have a friend to help build your cover.
Looking forward to spending this week together and celebrating Dave's big 64 on Saturday.