I've been slowly getting back to my sewing after my finger was lacerated after a vinegar bottle chose violence ten days ago. I still can't bend it, but my other digits are doing better at the workload. I might just get this Christmas quilt finished on time! #quiltsky #quilting #sewing

Getting to know the feel on my #Featherweight, as well as working towards a scant 1/4" without guides, is coming along. ☺️ I need to devise a easy-ish (but not boring) project just for her to really dig in and understand her quirks. #goodtimes #quilting #quiltsky #sewingmachine #vintagesinger

10 mi. in the bucket this morning, my first since June, when I developed plantar fasciitis, this after a fatigue bout caused by my tamoxifen. The run was slow but tiring; still, it felt great to get it done--and then have brunch at my fave #vegan cafe! #running #halfmarathontraining #runsky #runner

My newest addition, a 1948 #singerfeatherweight , fresh off eBay and in great condition for a crazy low price. Even my machine tech was impressed. 🙌🏻 I am in 😍 but need to find her a name. 🤔 (Note: Thread spool adapter in the mail.) #sewingmachine #vintagesewingmachine #sewing #quilting #quiltsky

First block of 48 star blocks for my Buon Natale ( #figtreequilts ) Heritage quilt. THE most helpful instructions came with this pattern by Lynn Wilder for Sew'n Wild Oaks. It assumes you know what you're doing, but supplies perfect guides. 🙌🏻 #quilt #quilting #quiltsky #quiltblock #herewego

More #modablockheads6! #quilt #quilting #sewalong #arewethereyet #batiks

Every time. #quilting #sewing #quilt #fabricstash #repostingwithtags

Finally got to this week's Blockheads...but not the given squares. To be honest, I hated them. I love Betsy Chutchian, but those blocks were not for me. So, I went over to Generations #Quilting and found a 9" square that I really liked, January Thaw. So glad I did! #quilt #sewing #modablockheads6

#modablockheads6 strikes again! #coreyyoder #modafabrics #quilting #quilt #quiltalong

#blockheads6 killed it this week with this 27" beaut of a block! #quilting #quilt #piecework #primitivegatherings #modafabrics #batiks

Seen on my Yogi teabag tab. So important to remember in these challenging and uncertain times. Keeping this one. 👍🏻💙

The latest #quilt block in A Quilting Life's latest #blockofthemonth is probably my favorite so far. I've been waiting for an excuse to exclusively use all of the #gingham prints from the Strawberry Lemonade collection. 🥰 #quilting #

Aaaaand now: #modablockheads 🥳 This week features a #kansastroubles design, "Crossroads." I wasn't too keen on the arrows at first, but my fabrics saved it for me. I'm really enjoying playing with the #Moda #batik collections in this! #quilting #quilts #quiltsampler #quiltalong

When the newest block of the month had a friendship star at its center, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. This collection, however, doesn't have blues nor purples, and imports looked wrong with it. So, I wasn't able to get a full rainbow, but I came close. 😊 #quilting #supportlgbtqia+

#modablockheads6 is officially underway here! I'm using Moda and Kate Spain (for Moda) batiks with Bella Solids in Juniper and White as backgrounds. Hopefully, it'll all come together well! 🤞🏻 #quilting #quiltsampler #likeineededanotherproject 🫠

Getting there! This large block #quilt was easy but tedious in its long sewing lengths and matching HST seams…which was *most* of the time. I'm not stressed about the few renegade points, though. I'm liking this quilt more as I assemble it. #quilting #corianderquilts #ninepatch #itsjustahobby

My back patio #rose loving the rain. Because of my hospital stays and recovery restricting any arm use during the whole of the growing season last year, all of my perennials on the property were neglected. I'm so grateful to see some of my favorites have survived. 🥰 #roses #gardening

Okay, fine. I can't scrappy. No, really, I tried to be scrappy like Cory Yoder has encouraged during this QAL. My brain just cranks into unhappy mode. 🤷🏼‍♀️ So we're going fussy all the way. 😊 #corianderquilts #quilt #quilting #blockofthemonth #fussycut

Sometimes I have to take a break from all my goofing off with #quilting and do some real work. 🤭 Thankfully, I know all of the pieces this week, so after some warm-up scales/longtones and a few run throughs, I can go back to…yes, goofing off. 😁 #flute #ineedtopractice #practicemakesprogress

*plotting... #quilting #quilt #quiltplanning #shesatitagain #corianderquilts

That moment when it all comes together, and you know your choices worked. #totalrelief #quilting #quilt #babyquilt #machinebinding

#pinningiswinning --but it's not a guarantee that those nested seams will be perfect. Always a good idea to remove the pin and give it one last squeeze-together when sewing. 🧵 🤔 #quilt #quilting

On point...one little bit at a time. #quilting #quilt #juki

Ah, that special time of the #school year, when all of my projects get put on the wayside so I can #hem the middle school girls' #band concert dresses. If you would like to give yourself a bit of #sewing trauma, hem up 20 or so of these slippery polyester beauties. 😂 #middleschoolband #sewingisfun

#NationalPoetryMonth Day 22: The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry Painting: Reading Woman in the Forest by Gyula Benczur (1875) #PoetryCommunity #Poetry

Corey Yoder's #QAL is updated through April! Unlike her sweetly scrappy #quilt, I'm being much the opposite with her Peachy Keen fabrics, even fussy cutting in places. I generally don't like my scrappy sampler finishes, so I'm trying coordination this time. #corianderquilts #quilting #quiltblock

You know it's a good addition to the #garden if within seconds of setting it down from the car, this happens. 👍🏻 #salvia #butterflies

I spent a good chunk of time on Baby Hilda's quilt; assembly time is coming soon. 🥳 Four squares to go! . Funny, though, how even "simple" patterns still require studious point matching! More awaits when I hook these up to the snowballs. That's triangles for you. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #quilting #quilt #babyquilt

It's surprising that I've never done an alphabet quilt, being that I am a retired editor and language nerd. Probably because it's not quite my style. I've made it a point this past year to get outside my comfort zone, so it was going to happen eventually. 😉 #quilt #quilting #samplerquilt

I learned to sew on a 1910s treadle machine on my great grandmother's farmhouse porch after heat exhaustion excused me from the hot southern Virginia sun. I was a curious and easily bored North Jersey girl of 10. Granny's life was the farm, and she had to occupy me somehow... #sewing #quilting

It's a little annoying when I fall in love with the pattern I'm making for a gift, even when they're not my colors. Darnit, now I have to make another one for myself. But what colors would make the same effect as that which I fell in love with? 🤔 So much for my queue decreasing. 😂 #quilt #quilting

Baby quilt to be. I'm going for something restful in its colors and simple in its design, as well as something new mom and dad won't be afraid to throw on the floor for tummy time...and drool. 😂 #quilting #babyquilt

I spend a stupid amount of time just arranging blocks, and yet I always seem to revert to symmetry somehow. My weird brain, perhaps, or maybe reverting to what Granny taught me about matching. More on Granny--and her daughter , my grandma--soon. They're kind of why I'm here.