Five Saturdays of scrappy purple blocks come to an end today.  I'm sad to leave my favorite behind, but the anticipation of another lov...

New Orleans and the color purple go together like needle and thread.  We've venerated purple for years as one of the colors of Mardi Gra...

A portion of the quilt book collection Being a quilter for almost 25 years, I've accumulated lots of quilt-related ephemera.  Books,...

More purple scraps were sliced and stitched up this week.  The purples look a little too pinky here - my fault for not photographing the ...

OK, so I finished cutting and re-piecing  my Twister quilt.  As the twisted blocks began to take shape, I kept waiting for the "ah-ha!...

Since today's weather was not conducive to outdoor activities (it was raining to hard to even jump in the car and go antiquing!), I deci...

Not only is it a purple day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge , it's also a purple - as in stormy! - day outside.  It's been raining h...

The June Rainbow Scrap Challenge color is purple.  My favorite color, by the way! I started the month by making some Greek Square bloc...

Quilt Sampler is one of my favorite quilting magazines.  I look forward to new issues and constantly revisit old issues for inspiration.  I...

Another doll quilt top added to the pile for hand-quilting.  The alternate blocks and side triangles went together easily.  I had to ease...