To celebrate National Quilting Day, I decided to pick out some fabrics to start a new quilt I've been thinking about.  As most of y...

As you all know, my "Lazy Hearts" BOM was over this month. But I had not sewn the blocks together. I'd experimented on my ...

Lately, I've gotten interested in "mug rugs"..........you know, a little coaster for your mug except bigger....... I got ...

Is it February yet? I couldn't wait....sorry....I'm posting BOM #2 a day early. February's heart block is here!  Go to m...

 See my new baby....it's the Kindle......my mom gave it to for me for Christmas.......OMG......I went crazy.....I mean absolutely C R ...

Last month , you may remember, my "wacky" girlfriends and I went on an embroidery retreat in Tyler, Texas. We learned plenty, l...

Here I am taking a break from embroidering. You would not believe how much we got done in the 3 1/2 days at D.C. At one point we were ...

The first border is from the same 2 1/2" squares that I swapped with my wacky buddies. I'm thinking of placing a 1 1/2" bla...

During our embroidery retreat, our hostess, Brenda (no blog) talked about the "plop & drop" method which she defined as stitc...

Since the embroidery retreat, I've been playing around with a few designs.  So far these 3 (peach, tomato and apple) are what I've...

Nobody can pack a vehicle like Kathleen can. Five of us piled into Kathy's suburban after Kathleen carefully packed all our stuff. ...

Depending on the color of thread you're using this wonderful little embroidery piece I stitched out is famously known as "red wo...

Still away from my computer but couldn't resist "scheduling" this post. I embroidered this little watermelon patch a few...

Oh dear! The month just crept upon me and is nearly half way finished. Sorry! Well, I've decided to do 2 months worth of give-aways...

Alrighty then. I know it's not tomorrow yet, but it's raining here and cold, again. And it was girls night out at our favorite wa...

It's nice and warm here in Central Texas this evening......thank goodness. If you remember what I went through last month with my neig...

T his is not just a picture. It's an embroidery design. That's right, I stitched it out on my Janome 11000. I just love that machin...

I need help in the worse possible way! Below are several Disappearing 9-patch designs. Please help me decide which design to sew together. ...

I can't get over the things my Janome 11000 can do or the fact that it can communicate with my computer. My grandfather would have love...

Added another block. Well I was playing with some new designs from EMBL that I purchased the other day. Of course, it took by all day to ...