Giraffe Dreams

I have a new job! I am the Fat Quarter Challenge quilt coordinator for Quilts Beyond Borders (QBB)! Anyone can join the fun! QBB delivers...

The Sun Does Shine, How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton Anthony Ray Hinton was innocent but was egregiously c...

It happened! The thing that I love! I found a picture of a kid wrapped in a quilt that I made! This is a boy in Mexico. He looks so happy to...

Gate 76 by Andrew Diamond I had hopes for this being captivating. It started out good; I thought I was in for an interesting story. It qu...

I know I have not posted much lately, other than a few book reviews. Well, I have been busy sewing, and will show you below some of my proje...

When I Was White by Sarah Valentine In this memoir, Valentine describes growing up in her white, suburban family in the Pittsburgh area. ...

When I make quilts for kids, I picture this in my mind: two girls in Guatemala: a boy in ? (I think Guatemala, but I'm not sure): ...

I made this very easy quilt top, thinking I might donate it to one of the programs I support. The fabric is so cute that I decided I would l...

This month's color is purple. I had fun with these, because I don't play with purple very often. I should make a point of using more...

All the Living by C.E. Morgan The writing in this book is beautiful. This is funny to me, because the first time I tried reading it, I ha...

Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember by Michael Tisserand This is a st...

I finally got my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks made. The blues I used are not that different from the earlier blue month, so I made only th...

Nobody's Property, Living on the Remains of a Life in California by Emily Kathleen Cooke When I started listening to this book, I th...

I am a newcomer to podcasts. I finally figured out how to easily access them. I got an app from the App Store (in my phone it is the Google ...

I was lucky to join some friends for a short quilting expedition in Bayfield, Wisconsin. What a pretty little town, right on the south shore...

Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of all Ages edited by Melissa de la Cruz Stories by girls and women born in various decades,...

two quilt tops I made for Quilts Beyond Borders .. both from Lotto blocks and orphan blocks Two quilts I made for Wrap a Smile. They wer...