Sentimental Stitches

Arrived here about 9:21 pm last night. It took me nearly 4 hours to get here from Chicago – could have driven back to Grand Rapids and then here in that amount of time. I was mighty tired and hungry but there was East of Chicago waiting for me with the “Open” sign shining brightly. [...]

Okay, first day on the road and I survived my share of challenges. It seemed like I was paying a toll or fighting traffic every mile of the way from Grand Rapids to Chicago. The roads were lousy in spite of all that toll money and in parts of Chicago between the construction and traffic [...]

I just added a wonderful new pattern to the
Online Store.
It’s called Potted Blooms. You’re going to love it!
It’s from the same time period as the Beyond The Cherry Trees block of the month we’re doing so naturally it’s part of the Polka Dot Garden series.

The pattern has full size drawings of the blocks and [...]

I have some news to share with all of you and wish I had a recording of one of my favorite people who is blessed with the most lyrical way of making announcements for our table at the Dear Jane Retreats in Shipshewana. Did I mention the retreat is coming up in about a [...]

This breath of spring block now has a few more layers, some hidden stitches found and a cute cheddar bird but I think it’s complete.

Here’s the center flower with the additional layer outline stitched and the tiny bird.

It turns out the two flowers on the sides of the block are not the same as I [...]

Last night I kept looking at the two block pictures I uploaded for this month’s Beyond The Cherry Trees block and darn it all, there were hidden stitches staring me right in the face. It looked like a simple fix of just adding the quilting designs to each side of the block. Not too worry, [...]

I hope everyone’s enjoying the blocks from the Cherry Tree quilt. It was fun taking pictures earlier this week. It’s amazing what you see when a quilt is hanging and your eye takes it in all at once.
Block 6 is like the breath of Spring we’re longing for in snow covered Michigan. It’s filled with [...]

As Clutch and I put the finishing touches on Block 6 of our Polka Dot Garden Beyond The Cherry Trees quilt I thought you might enjoy seeing one of the photographs we took today. I got out my trusty adjustable quilt stand, shoved furniture out of the way and took over 150 pictures. Halfway through [...]

This is about as excited as Clutch is going to get over Valentine’s Day

but if you take a trip over to Bunny Hill’s blog you’ll see Chelsea has captured the spirit of the day.

Be sure to tell Chelsea how cute she looks because Anne has a nice give-a-way to celebrate Valentine’s Day too.

Love to [...]

Short Stems, originally uploaded by sentimentalstitches.

Working on hidden stitches in this month’s block and found the stems
on one side of the block stopped before they reached the center stem.
The ends are finished so it must have been done for a reason but why???