Charity auction: Cats & Quilts & Human Rights

I donated two copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul’s My Very Good, Very Bad Cat to a charity auction run by Readers & Writers for LGBT Chechens. It’s the book that made Lilo print-famous by including my essay about her fabric-eating misadventures. Be the winning bidder to get a signed copy of the book and a personalized thank you from … Read more

Homemade bleach gel pens are easy to make—and a waste of time

Sometimes when I make a quilt with both brightly colored and white fabrics, I or the quilt recipient washes it without putting a Shout Color Catcher Sheet in the machine with it, and it ends up looking like this: My solution for this problem has usually been Clorox Bleach Pens, but my local supermarket no longer carries them and I … Read more

Birds in my window

I’ve been working on some alterations to my living room window quilt and finally finished them last week. Here’s what it looks like: Here’s how it started: The birds on the birch tree are something I silkscreened on the window quilt several years ago during a crafting party at a friend’s house. I have often thought that the quilt looked a little bare … Read more

Free-ish photo book

My work requires a lot of typing and mousing, so I’m often looking for more ergonomic ways to use the computer. Last week I  bought a Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Small Tablet to use as a mouse.  A few years ago, I bought the Apple Magic Trackpad for the same reasons, and now I  wish I had bought this instead. The Intuos product … Read more

Crazy quilt back

I finally found the photo of the back of the Seasons quilt I made for my niece’s adoption. It’s composed of whites, near-whites, and light browns from my scrap bins. I think I may like the back more than the front. The scraps with printing on them are leftovers from a cut-and-sew Humpty Dumpty doll fabric panel. My niece has been through … Read more