New Fabric

Happy how this new batch turned out!

Premier quilt!

First quilt I have ever finished! I want to say by myself, but sadly not so. I designed and pieced the top, then my talented mother did the actual quilting on a machine. Really happy with how it turned out, and was so excited to give it to my dear friend's brand new baby daughter! Couldn't have asked for a cuter recipient!

Mine all mine!

Best idea of the day.

Italian Villas and their Gardens

I just found this reprint of the 1904 original edition and am extremely excited about it. It is the result of a collaborative effort between Rizzoli International Publications and The Mount, an organization founded to preserve and restore Edith Wharton's Massachusetts estate.
Wharton had a diverse writing portfolio and sadly very few of her works are readily available. I can't wait to spend the quiet moments of my long-weekend reading her thoughts on Italian Villas and their Gardens!

Fabric Samples

Finally got some of my fabrics back from the printer!
I'm really excited, they turned out better then I imagined.

(Sorry, pictures are crappy - will get better ones up on my website)

Garden path

I think it was when I moved to England that I began to appreciate a well-considered bit of greenery. Since then my genteel delight has taken on a rather greedy desire for more, bigger, better. It's lucky then that my in-laws happen to be expert gardeners and happen to own some rather fertile land in a lush part of the world. Here are a few pictures that frankly do the real thing absolutely no justice.