I have been trying to get B to sleep un-swaddled. It really hasn’t been going very well. She was sleeping through the night but is back to waking every two hours. After several nights of this on the back end of her not sleeping well due to sickness, I’m exhausted. L has been waking four…
Quilt #5 is under way. I had actually planned to do this quilt a year ago, last December, but then I got pregnant, and I wasn’t really up for it. A year later, here we are. I’ve lost some enthusiasm for the project, but I’m enjoying cutting the pieces for applique at the moment. Here’s…
What a night. B took a bit of a turn for the worse yesterday – nothing scary, just a very stuffy nose that made her uncomfortable and made it hard for her to sleep or eat. We were up quite a few times last night, and she was cranky much of today because she really…
This quilt is based on the totem pattern by Carolyn Friedlander. I couldn’t find any place to buy a digital version of the pattern online, so I just eyeballed it. The quilt is pretty closely copied from a baby quilt Friedlander made. I don’t have a particularly robust stash, or I would have matched it…
I finished my Christmas present quilt today. Hooray! It’s definitely not perfect, but then, of the dozens of handmade projects I’ve done, they never, ever are. Tomorrow, hopefully I’ll get a cry-free, rain-free spell to photograph it. Like the quilt that inspired it, I quilted horizontal lines on the solid fabric with a walking foot…
So many beautiful quilts, so little time to copy them! I’ve mentioned before that I’m a huge fan of Red Pepper Quilts, I think. She has lots of inspiring quilts, but the one that caught my eye recently is this pineapple quilt: (Click image for more, larger photos on her site) The bright colors are…
