As the President of our local quilt guild, I'm tasked with coming up with an article for our monthly newsletter.  One month I decided to submit a longer version of my column to a local paper and they picked it up.  It seemed to ring true for a lot of people.  We were lucky enough…

Hello Campers:

I have not posted since winter had us by the throat and would not let loose (it lasted til the end of April, for God’s sake) so here I am again to give you an update on what is happening around the quilting house of Leiner Inc.  In a nutshell, I am stuck on making quilt tops (and only quilt tops) that have “inchers,” or one inch squares as I am told they are called.  There is a reason for this, of course.  There always is a reason and that is the story for…

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While browsing facebook in my pj today (a rainy Sunday), I found this short piece on Ken Burns and his quilts.  Awesome.  This man is brilliant!  Aren't you all so proud to be of this tradition?  I particularly like the idea that…

I haven't talked about it much here but I have decided I am a tired old dog.  I have an excuse of course.  Every old dog does and here is mine.

In March 2017, I had my artificial knee on the left replaced with a new artificial knee as the old one came loose and moved left.

In October 2017, they determined the right artificial knee was infected and took it out, replacing it with a spacer for 5 weeks.  Turns out they were wrong, it was not infected (good news for me) but the…

It's January and apparently a slow news week.   I made the newspaper (print and online version) with a short video and print interview about quilting.  The reporter, Shirley, is a museum friend and called asking me if I would like to talk about quilting.  Can you imagine me saying no???

She asked me to bring my latest project so I brought in Ruby's Christmas quilt.  The top is finished and I think I will wait until I have Sylvia's done as well before I pin and quilt them both.  Maybe…

This block swap will be a St. Patricks Day theme.  All experience levels welcome from beginner to expert. Blocks can be either patchwork or appliqué.  All blocks must be in to me no later than April 1st, 2018. We are looking for 10-16 people to participate.  if you are looking to participate let me know. Once I have a head count of how many people are participating I will let you know how many blocks each person should make.

Rules for the block:

Please…

Hello Everyone,

Robyn sent me this happy shot of my present in her spare bedroom and I thought I'd share with you at last! I already have decided she also needs a quilt so desperately on that bed too! So I will go shopping for some more of my fabrics and make a rather plain nine patch but will add perhaps several blocks of the smaller cushions in the centre and finish off with a rather plain quilt so their is some…

Merry Christmas morning to you all!  As I sit here this snowy morning, alternately sipping my Christmas tea and Diet Coke, I am contemplating the year soon to end and another about to begin.  I once told someone a good year was three quilts completed and by that definition, this was a good year.  I finished Becky's…

I hope this is the right place to post this question, but I really need some help here. I am working on a patchwork large quilt and am to the sash strips point. Despite my very careful cutting and attention to my seam allowance I have ended up with some very wonky edges. I have tried to hide some of this in th seam allowance but some places need more than that. I am still kinda a beginner and had this problem while making placemats and ended up turning the 9 patch into smaller wonky pieces…

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LIMQG Takes Manhattan

My family was blended long before that became a fashionable term.  My parents divorced in 1958 (I was 3) and my dad, who had custody of my sister Bev and I remarried a wonderful woman in 1959 who became Mom to us and gave us our sister, Denise.  Mom was a 26 year old secretary with her own car and the family…

Here is the 2017 schedule for meetings of the ACTS Ministry (Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Sharing) at West Hills Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN.

This is a group of people who get together to crochet, quilt, sew, needle tat, knit, make jewelry, and enjoy each others company. We multiply our joys and divide our burdens while we meet with each other. Many members of this group are not members of this church, as we met through classes that I taught. Beginners in these or other arts &…

I just posted a story of how this quilt come to be, even when things are all wrong something beautiful can come out, check it out my friends.

has anyone made the Jack' chain quilt? If so I would love to see it. I'm in the process of doing one of my own, what a workout. I found the pattern in  a quilters newsletter dated back toJuly of 1998. This is a great pattern. Just wondering  how other quilters did.

Just won 1st place in our guild with these funky woodland creatures. Added lots of hand quilting to the machine applique. Animal patterns by Wendy Gratz of Shiny Happy…

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."  (Thoreau);  "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." (Andre Maurois);  "Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards." (e.e. cummings)';  "All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace); "No one has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold." (Zelda Fitzgerald).

These are the five quotes about…

On Friday, March 10, I drove from Champaign, IL  to St. Joseph, Michigan to attend a class at Accomplish Quilting on Saturday, March 11th.  It was the first class for training on my new Innova machine.  There were about 8 others in the class and some ladies brought their husbands with them.  We got to know each other and learn more about our machines.  Accomplish Quilting sells more than just Innova's and so they had others there who were learning more about their Gammill machines or other…

Thought this might be fun. You might be a quilter if you ____fill in the blanks. So I was making a chili dog and this happened. …