Craftastic!

I finally finished “Flock”. Took me forever to complete the quilting on it. Rushed through the last bit and now I regret it. Oh well. It’s all a learning experience. Next time will be better!

Took a Zentangle class earlier this year to help me with my quilting. Only one of the drawings below is actually mine. In the middle picture below, mine is on the second row second from the left. Zentangle is lots of fun! Very meditative. I recommend it to anyone who thinks they can’t draw. It’s

My mother took a trip to CO in the late 90s and visited a museum about the wild west. As an avid quilter, she noticed a sign telling visitors to ask about the quilt on display if they were interested. The quilt on display was called a Promise Quilt. These quilts were completed by women

I was inspired to make a raincoat Monday after getting trapped in a Golden, CO hailstorm. The next day on my way home from dropping Cholo off at the vet for a cosmetic procedure, I picked up an Amy Butler pattern for a raincoat that I’ve been thinking about for almost a year. So for

Wow I can hardly believe I finished the quilt I started over a year ago! It seems like it was just yesterday that I started the quilt with Lynne, my fabulous mom-in-law. I couldn’t have done anything without all of her help and guidance. It is a memory quilt made of my old roller derby

We weren’t supposed to be home but the accident changed all that.  We gave out candy for the first time in years.  Most of the costumes sucked but the littler kids were cute. I feel old as they were piss-poor trick-or-treaters.  We KNEW how to trick-or-treat back in the good old days. Here is our

Lina has started sewing as my mother slowly draws her to the dark side of quilting.  Here’s here first skirt!

I found craftster.org on the web after getting into and subscribing to ReadyMade magazine last month (I still haven’t received my 1st copy) Craftster.org is a huge website filled with forums devoted to different kinds of crafts. After several days of exploring I found Clothing Reconstruction. There’s a whole forum devoted to T-shirt recons and