If you have ever made lotto blocks and have a blog I know about, I follow you.  I love seeing everyone’s quilt projects … and also learning about whatever else interests you or is going on in your life.  It’s for that reason that  the topic for this weekend’s linky party is UN-quilty. Please join the party by adding a link to a recent blog post of yours about something besides quilting.   Johnny the cat dares you....

If only our weekends really were 4 days long, like the window for sharing a link as part of Weekend Update, right? Although the designated topic weekend is NEXT week, I probably will be sharing some thing un-quilty, because lately the quilting isn’t going so well.  I finally have a functional Bernina again and thought I’d finish the wonky shoo fly doll quilt I was working on at the beginning of the year. First I ran out of thread. I...

Wow.  May really came and went quickly … and when the weekend officially arrives on Saturday, it will be June. My weekend plan is to do some spring cleaning and re-arranging in the studio.  How about you?  Please share a link using the linky tool below. I’m hoping that I don’t encounter any more of the cats’ new friends.  I think this little New Mexico whiptail lizard followed me into the house Wednesday.  Johnny...

Although it’s officially a month away in the northern hemisphere, in some part of the US, Memorial Day is the unofficial beginning of Summer.  Around here, it’s only just begun to feel like Spring outside. I grew up in Michigan being told that nothing gets planted outside until after Memorial day … and then heard the same thing in Santa Fe last year.  I won’t be planting much–drought conditions here (and a broken gray...

Painters are returning to my house today to repaint the ceiling (after repairing some damage from a leak).  My week so far has included a lot of furniture moving–most of my living room/dining room furniture is now in the kitchen and studio.   I expect to spend a good chunk of my weekend cleaning up the mess that contractors/repair people always seem to leave behind no matter how neat they are and moving everything back. I’d much rather...

The theme this weekend is Sharing Your Process.  Please link to a blog article that shows us some part of your quilt-making process. FYI, I don’t necessarily mean sharing a tutorial you’ve written or some terrific tip on how to do something.  Sometimes, by transparently sharing how you do what you do, maybe sharing your frustrations, dislikes or questions about why we are taught to do something a certain way, or asking if...

Is it Spring yet?  I saw these beautiful tulips on Edita Sithar’s blog and couldn’t help but wonder why it’s tulip time in Michigan and … 25 degrees (F) here.  Like my cats, all I really want to do is curl up under a quilt until it starts acting like spring again.   What have you been up to this week?  What do you planned for the weekend? Please share a link with...

It’s time for the weekend update.  Please share a link from your blog–quilting related or not. Yesterday, I pieced some wide scrappy striped made fabric for border for a scrap quilt–the borders are on and I’d like to spend the weekend quilting it, but the temperatures are up and it feels like spring again and I want to explore. Maybe I’ll find a way to do enough of both things or maybe I’ll toss a coin … how...

It’s time again for the weekend update. Please use the linky tool to share something from your blog.  A new project?  A finished project?  Snow where there should be spring flowers at home?  (It was 16 degrees last night in Santa Fe … not exactly my idea of spring weather.) Are you quilting?  gardening?  something...

I laugh at myself whenever I walk into my bedroom.  It’s more than obvious … a quilter sleeps here. This month’s topic for weekend update asks the question: What happens to the quilts you make?  Do you use the quilts you make on your beds, hang them on your walls, decorate your table? Do you support a favorite charity through quilt donations?  Tell us about it. or share photos of your quilts in use … or a tip for hanging...

A plumbing catastrophe at my house was a major distraction this week and, as a result, very little quilting happened.  Now that the plumber has come and gone, I plan to spend some time this weekend playing catch-up.  How about you. Share a link from your blog below.  It doesn’t have to be quilting related …maybe you had a major distraction this week, too?   Has Spring (or Autumn) arrived at your home?  It’s gone cold again...

When you’re not working … every day is the same in which you work at being able to work again.  In any event, I almost forgot it’s Friday and time for the weekend update. Please share a link from your blog below. Are you quilting, crafting, cooking, gardening–my neighbor has daffodils in bloom and I admit that I’m jealous–or something else? Happy Easter, Happy Passover, Happy Spring Break, Happy...