Giraffe Dreams

I'm still learning about this blogging stuff. I feel so foolish sometimes. How do people make those lists of other blogs that are actual...

This is where I am learning to make pieced alphabets: http://quiltville.com/tonya/alphabet1.shtml Tonya does clever and fun quilts using her...

Lately I have played around with new ideas. I used the very fun pieced letters from Tonya's web site. I'll list the address from her...

My new great-niece was born on Friday, May 26! Isn't she adorable??? Here she is sleeping peacefully on her great-grandma's lap. She...

Hey there, Blog friends. I had no idea that my last blog was so long ago. It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I wrote about that c...

Last month I posted a picture of the challenge fabric I had to use for my guild's show challenge. This is a photo of my challenge entry....

Several years ago I read the book Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. A section on giraffes touched my heart and from then on I have been a lover...

OK, I must admit that the things I lose "mysteriously" eventually get found under some pile or in a ridiculous place around my hou...

Here is the table runner that I made and finished today. I decided that I will donate it to my guild's small quilt auction. They really ...

Friday night after work I started quilt projects, and worked straight through Sunday evening. I am trying to finish some UFOs (unfinished ob...

Tonight I made about ten small blocks. They had to be squared up. I moved the blocks over to my cutting mat while I looked for my squaring r...

This is the fabric I have to use in the challenge quilt (mentioned in my "Surprise Sunday" entry). It'll hang in my guild'...

Last week I was searching on the net for something fun to do, and I came upon an annoucement of a free concert of the MN Boychoir. I thought...

I am so happy it is Friday evening! This weekend I hope to do a lot of sewing. Today I received some very nice fabric that I ordered from th...

I am reading an excellent book, Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce , by Kent Nerburn. I highly recommend it for understanding Amer...

Here's a winter wall hanging I hope to finish soon.

I liked Janet's idea of creating a blog, so I am doing one, too. This will be a place to discuss my quilty life and my daily/weekly/mont...