Author: Melissa

Wanting to use already cut strips, if possible, I got sidetracked again by having to sort strips from multiple storage containers in order to determine whether I had enough of a particular strip/squares to complete a block. Side note: while I had sorted some of the smaller strip widths previously, I had never sorted this… Continue reading Sidetracked

Since I retired at the beginning of the year, it feels like I’m on a really long quilting retreat at home. I get up and exercise and stretch, eat and do my morning devotional, then attend to anything that needs my attention (getting everything in order is a longer process than you might think). And… Continue reading Home Retreat

The snow we’ve had this week has been the perfect complement to making the billion four-patches I need for my Sand Castles quilt. I gathered all of the ones I’d previously made and hid in my scrap bin, then I began sorting out some of the newer neutrals I’ve just been throwing into the bin… Continue reading Sewing four-patches

I’ve been working mostly on the string pieced sections of the Sand Castles quilt, but I decided I just had to see how they are going to look as finished blocks, so I put together two of them. I went with a white-on-white print for the sashing strips because I wanted it to have a… Continue reading Two blocks