I took my first quilting course in September 1994 in Barrie, Ontario, near the armed forces base where I was stationed. After moving to Ottawa in 1996, I joined my first guild. I took more courses and began to buy quilting books and lots of fabrics. Quilting has become my passion. I have made over 150 more quilts since then, and have never looked back. I now share my knowledge of quilting by teaching and doing presentations, and blogging!
Like many of you, I love to shop the big box stores. You know, the kind of store that sells salad dressing by the half gallon; ground beef in 5 pound packages, and tissues 12 boxes to a package. I love the deals and will buy, buy, buy! For the…
The environment is a topic that comes up often in the news. Though I would never pretend to be a hardcore environmentalist, I do try to do my part to sustain and improve the environment by recycling, composting, doing laundry during off-peak energy use times and sometimes even washing my…
Living on the quilting grid There’s nothing faster and easier than taking square or rectangular pieces of fabric and sewing them together side by side to make rows; then take those rows and sew them together to make a quick and easy quilt top. Now, as much as I’m a…
I’m old enough to remember going to school with my school book covers carefully wrapped in brown paper for their protection. Normally the brown paper came from the paper bags our groceries came home in. Back in those days, there were no such things as plastic bags! Now, moving forward…
Yes. Today I’m going to talk about dog ears. No, not dog’s ears; remember, this is a quilting blog, not a dog blog! What are “dog ears” in quilting terms? Allow me to explain. When sewing together 2 half square triangles or 2 diamond shapes we get what we affectionately…