I started making this quilt from a picture I saved on Pinterest. The picture had no information. Finding quilt pattern names is almost impossible these days due to algorithms that are supposed to make things easier. I think it has made things worse. I'm pretty sure he who pays the most gets pushed to the top of the search. Using all the key words I could think of I searched Google, DuckDuckGo, Pinterest, Bing, Instagram, and Facebook. I even did a reverse image search. Thankfully my aging brain can still work things out with a little time. I knew I had seen this quilt before, but where? Since it is a simple quilt, it was easy to recreate without a pattern while my brain worked in the background to find the quilt pattern in its corrupted files.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Starbound Quilt Top
Monday, July 7, 2025
Patriotic Quilt Challenges
This quick and easy scrappy patriotic quilt is coming along nicely even though I've had a couple of challenges.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Quilt Therapy
Why did I need quilt therapy on the 4th of July? Long story short...my neighbor asked me to feed her dogs while she was out of town this weekend. While playing outside with them in the afternoon one of them took off on an adventure. Two hours later and a lot of driving I found the dog. I managed to keep my wits about me while looking for him, but horrible things ran through my head. Upon returning home I broke down and let the bottled-up emotions out in tears. After calming down I knew I needed some sewing therapy. Quilting on the frame won't cut it today. I need to cut some fabric! Something quick and easy to get a shot of dopamine (feel-good stuff) to my brain. Since it's the 4th of July, might as well play with the red, white and blue scraps.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Middle Of The Night Sewing
Last night was the second night in a row a very little sleep. About 4 hours of here and there sleeping each night. Nothing on the internet or TV worth watching so I had to find something to do that wouldn't wake up Mr. Podunk. As you know I've been quilting up old UFO quilt tops. The Strawberry Shortcake quilt is still on the frame, but my quilter is kind of loud, and Mr. Podunk is a light sleeper, so I opted to sew at the sewing machine.
The lights came on in the sewing room at 1:32 a.m. As I stood in the middle of the room considering my options I spied the two tin boxes above my pressing table.