Christal Sakrison is one of my best friends. She is in our little knitting group. She has been knitting since she was a child. I think,personally, that she has been knitting since she was in the womb. However, her mother has never reported this to be true. She helps all of us each time we are together. She wears everything she makes, and it never fails to inspire, amaze and

Gail Schroeder made these socks out of fabulous yarn that she bought at Bungalow. We just received a new shipment of sock yarn in. Have you ever made socks? They are so wonderful. People always think “Why would you spend all that time making socks when you can buy them so easily? I say these people have never worn a pair of home made socks. Once you have them you

I have blogged before about quilting with alternative textures. I think it’s just fantastic. After all, our founding mothers of quilting did it all the time. It is in the real spirit of quilting. I had a quilting instructor early in my quilting years that said never to use anything but 100% cotton. I remember at that time thinking “What a strange thing to say”. I remember thinking that she

Okay, I told Cathy that I wasn’t going to post this until after the wedding. But, the Bride and Groom are not customers of mine. I don’t think that they would be interested in reading my blog. You see, they aren’t even from this area anymore, and they wouldn’t even think to look at this blog. What would make them think to take a gander over to my website? I

When I had the Milwaukee shop, I met these two ladies. They drove up to Ripon to take the Umbrella Class. Marie did the Packer umbrella and Wilma did the Black and White one. These umbrellas have been such a hit. I just sent 2 of them all the way to New Zealand! These ladies only had to come from Milwaukee. It makes the trip to Milwaukee seem like nothing

Connie Wahoske lives in Ripon. She is a really great quilter. She is also a member of our discount club. She got all the fabrics for this quilt as a member. It is the fabric from Moda’s “Little Black Dress” collection by Basic Grey. She pieced in all of the curves by machine, but what is really remarkable is the hand quilting. I don’t do hand quilting and so I

Amanda Shaffer is not from here. She was a Ripon College student and she was from Indiana. She popped in to the Bungalow because she loves fiber art. I saw her and instantly recognized that she had a sense of style. Since her first visit, she has made a few skirts using Bungalow fabrics. This skirt that she has on is from the Natural History Collection by Lizzy House for

Okay. This has so been my soapbox for a while now. People are hesitant to sew with other textures, ones other than cotton. But remember cotton comes in many textures too. There are cotton knits, even cotton velveteens. I love to embark on the adventure of sewing with other fibers. Silk is my personal fav, but has some limitations, especially cost. But, you only need a little in certain applications.