A Quilty Cannery

Finally finished cutting out all the blocks for my Tula Pink tea party kit, and decided to start with the teapot blocks. The instructions...

On the last day of 2022, my new longarm machine arrived, with little fanfare, on the front porch! My husband was backing out of the...

Over the holidays, I was sewing and listening to a recent two- part podcast from the Quilter On Fire. In episodes 97 & 98, she was...

My younger sister and her family live in Denver, Colorado. I've spent a lot of time over the past 12 years traveling out to visit them...

This winter has been very unusually. With la nina in effect, meteorologists expected the winter to leave with a burst of snow and cold...

In early December, I finally did it! I ordered a longarm quilting machine and frame. Because they were having a huge sale, I was told it...

Ham Shanks make all the difference! On New Year's Day, we were supposed to join a soup potluck party at a friends, and I had a steamy pot...

A Year Spent in a Fabric Coma! Last year was a bit of a sewing production line for me! Here's a recap of what I believe are all of my...

My temperature quilt is finished, and that means it's time for the year-end round of up my quilt and sewing projects, skills and tools. A...

I definitely did not can as much this year as I did in the past two years, but I have continued to can, steadily, especially some of my...

It's been a few years since I canned raw-packed chicken. They look a bit of a mess (see below), and are a hassle to clean the empty...

A few of the garden/homesteading YouTubers I follow all swear by blackened shishito peppers and a garlic aioli sauce (claiming it will...

Merry Christmas! I'm sitting in my kitchen, making some holiday-inspired treats, listening to Christmas tunes, and looking out on a very...

My dear spouse has reminded me that I haven't posted in a while, so while I sit in the kitchen, enjoying some background soft Christmas...

The quilt top for the Sherri McConnell (A Quilting Life) 2022 Sew Along/Block of the month is done! And it's Molly Approved. This...

Here it is, the final quilt top! While I love this one, it was a challenge. I made a pretty big error earlier in the day and three of...

This is a very atypical color (well, series of colors) and pattern for me... and that might be why I am absolutely loving how it's...

And here it is, Bossa Nova Pineapple Quilt (A kit from Shabby Fabrics), block 5 of 6. I finished and got these sewed into the rows with...

And moving into the blues! Here is Block #4. The colors are really starting to pop, and we are 2/3 done! I decided against cutting all...