Stripping is easy!

I have a lot of experience stripping.  Not on a pole, mind you, stripping as in strip piecing… as in making quilts?  Hello?  Anyone there?!  Saying stripping instead of strip piecing is, like, the oldest quilters joke.  Classic.  Neat.

Strip piecing basically is cutting full-length strips of fabric, selvage-to-selvage, and then sewing the long strips [...]

Jude’s 5th birthday card

My sister has been so good about creating a special birthday card for my boys on every birthday.  I had to interrupt Jude as he was playing with LEGOs to show him this card yesterday.  He thought it was pretty sweet, of course.

Here are Jude’s Emily-made cards from the last few years:

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New baby quilt

Here’s the story:

My friend Tara is a great girl.  I love her lots.  She has always admired my quilts.  I don’t say that in a braggy way, like, “Hey everyone, look at my awesome quilts!   I’m so awesome!”  Not quite like that.  She just has always been so sweet about my crazy hobby and [...]