Category Archives: WIPs Happy 2021! While 2020 didn’t go as planned, I was surprised to learn I actually finished eight of the nine projects I’d set as a goal for in those naive early days of pre-pandemic 2020! I failed to pick up knitting needles even once in 2020, but the rest of the projects, even the massive […]  This summer is a major respite from the otherwise insanity of trying to work and earn my nursing degree. It will be brief, though, and this fall and spring semesters will likely drop me into the most serious time-juggling challenge of my life. So I’m trying to do as many of the crafty things on […]  Melissa is one of the most generous people I know, and one of the things that she does that is totally crazy is pretend that family photos are a decent swap for time on her long arm quilting machine. And I am in love with that thing. I quilted two baby quilts this morning in […]  The biggest thing I did this year was this: I finished all of my nursing school prerequisites with a 4.0 and got a job as a CNA at the birth center of our local hospital. And also I kept up to date with Project Life, which anyone can tell you is a miracle. (This is […]  ***Cool announcement: the subscribe by email feature in the sidebar to the right is now working!*** Look at this poor little neglected blog! It was a busy summer that included a week-long evacuation from a wildfire that we thought for a few days had destroyed our home (I even had a blog post planned out […]  I have officially joined the ranks of the crazy people. I am actually giving serious thought to ripping off a quilt’s binding, making new continuous bias binding, and sewing it on again. I think this might be unnecessary. Help me decide. Here’s the deal–with this quilt I thought the purple binding was a no-brainer. I […] |
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