I'm finally adding pictures of the four memory quilts I made from about 20 men's shirts. Here they are all laid out together. Check out my link under pages here to see the rest of them ..read more

I'm in the process of putting together three comforters measuring about 60 by 80 inches to donate to Mennonite Central Committee this month. This relief and development organization hopes to collect 6,500 comforters in January as part of their centennial celebrations. The comforters get baled and shipped to disaster zones or to refugee camps. For this one, I used up a bag of samples given to me by a friend of a friend, and added a few fabrics to get it to size. I machine quilted  along the vertical seams with my walking foot and hand tied knots every six inches in the middle of the columns ..read more

I've been making small things lately, like sewing machine blocks. This is my first attempt at a Singer Featherweight. Then I went for the mid-70s looks with an orange machine. I invoked my inner Trekkie to make two sets of tea cozies,  using my favourite quote from Captain Picard. The one at the left is made from a linen/cotton blend. I also embarked on a pouch-making frenzy in September, finishing up these two I started a long time ago. I get a lot of love for the nesting doll prints, but these dolls don't nest, unless of course they are all put together already and just sitting on a ..read more

Recently I was commissioned to make a table runner similiar  to the one above, which I made as a class sample. I didn't want to sell the sample, so I started making houses with fabrics that would be special to the buyers. Here is the finished table runner. It measures about 18 by 40 inches I used a variety of greens for the trees, and text and novelty fabrics for the houses. Above are a rainbow house, a love house, and a prayer house. And a music house, an African hut, a peace and writing house, and a rose house. Here are the two of them side by side. The bottom one is my class sam ..read more

For months my house has been taken over by bits and pieces of men's shirts. My cousin died in March, and at his funeral, his wife asked us to make a quilt from his dress shirts. Turns out she found 55 coloured shirts, so the project grew from one quilt to at least four. I volunteered to take the blue shirts, as well as a few orange ones, to make quilts for his two sons, one still a teenager, and the other in his early twenties. This project grew even further when we realized how much fabrics is really in an XL size shirt. My mother made two quilts from the aqua and black shirts in that cl ..read more

I'm headed east to see two quilts I worked on be auctioned off for charityat the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale.My small guild puts together a group quilt every year,and we sent off two recent ones to this sale in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. We made this Bright Strings in 2015-16 Check the link in the online catalogue for more details. We mad the log cabin last year and the catalogue link is here. This year the sale has introduced online bidding, so you can place your bid here. All proceeds from quilt sales benefit the relief work of Mennonite Central Committee ..read more

Sometimes quilts weigh on my mind,like this unfinished log cabin I started in Jan. 2017. I had a vision of blue starbursts in my head,but I'm not happy with the contrast.I used two jelly rolls with some additional fabrics,and now I'm rethinking the whole project.I have 36 14 inch blocks, so I may go with the furrow layout on the top.The biggest obstacle for me is quilting it, since I don't usually machine quilt such large quilts.And I'm quite hesitant to pay someone else to quilt it when I don't really like the quilt at all. Recently I taught improv quilting at a local quilt shop.This was my f ..read more