Nikki Polakowski is a really amazing knitter. She not only knits, but she designs her own patterns. Here she is with a boot cuff that she designed the pattern for. She also tweeked another pattern and came up with the Thing One and Thing Two leg warmers, and created the hat pattern by herself. Pretty amazing wouldn’t you say?

I love Halloween. Yes, I always have a black cat. I am particularly fond of them. My favorite color is orange. So, does it not make sense that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays? Recently I received a phone call from a woman asking me to vend at her guild’s quilt show. I asked her what the date was. She told me that it was October 31st and November

I have done this clamshell class about 3 or 4 times now, and it never gets old. That’s because the customers that come to do it always have amazing ideas of how to use fabrics for it. It really is just a simple one-patch, and by the time you’re done with this class you will be an expert at piecing curves. There are some tricks to doing it really well,

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