sao’s Crafty Report – Summer 2010

| August 27, 2010

Do you remember the OLDEN days when you returned to school and the teacher asked you what you did on your summer vacation?  I guess you didn’t have to live in the OLDEN DAYS to remember this!!! Well, I spent almost two months in Kansas and Missouri – and since I stayed indoors in fancy resorts [...]

Quilty Things in SAO’s World: Fred’s Boxy Stars and Fred’s Ts Quilt Back – AND My Birth of a Sampler Quilt is FINALLY finished!

| October 25, 2008

I am doing the HAPPY DANCE tonight because I finished my brother Fred’s Boxy Stars Quilt top (another Bonnie K. Hunter free quilt pattern on www.quiltville.com).  I actually had finished  the center of this quilt – all except the outer border while on the Massanetta Springs Country Piecemaker’s Retreat!  YEAH!  I wasn’t sure that I was [...]

Day One of Tour De Quilt at Quilter’s Corner in Midlothian

| October 16, 2008

We had a great day today and Quilter’s Corner was festive with beautiful quilts and the clubhouse was decorated for the fall festivities.    Marla, Ginger, and I had so much fun visiting with friends, old and new, and we even got to see some of our visitor’s show and tell quilts!  There were lots of [...]

FABRIC STASHBUSTERS, and QUILTY SHOW AND TELL

| July 11, 2008

FABRIC STASHBUSTERS Some of us have accumulated a wealth of fabric – known in the quilty world as our stash.  STASHBUSTER GROUPS are abundant in the online world of quilters trying to control their artistic impulses (aka buying fabric habit.)  Here is a new way to use up that collection…..invite in three wannabe fashion designers and [...]

I Gave Birth Today

| July 7, 2008

Tomorrow is the LAST BIRTH OF A SAMPLER CLASS and I really really really wanted to get the top completed BEFORE class……but Cuddles kept impeding progress (she decided that SLEEPING on the pieces was a grand idea!)  How long can a cat nap last anyway? I hung in there and I am PLEASED TO SAY [...]