Pieceful Hearts and Dirt Road Hikes!

Mid-summer.  That means getting out as early in the day as we can, even though early is purely relative to everything that has to be done before I actually get to the retreat around 10am.

"I'd love to go on a walk" someone says as I walk through the door of the quilting quarters after feeding Hazel and Flash.

I'd already put in about 2 hours of computer work before leaving home...if we wanted to make the most of the morning my reply was "Meet me at the van in 10 minutes!"

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Bikers & Quilters!

Quiltville Inn sits at the crossroads of highway 16 coming up from North Carolina and highway 58,. Route 58 runs for approximately 508 miles stretching horizontally across the entire southern border of the state. It begins near the Cumberland Gap at the western tip and ends at Route 60 in Virginia Beach on the Atlantic coast.

It might look like a lazy 2-lane highway in front of the inn, but this route is a favorite of motorcyclists and other travelers alike in the summer months.

This means that I am often a destination rest stop for quilters as well!

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No Scrap Neglected!

I was anxious to get to the studio yesterday so I could throw myself into getting this little sewing machine stitchery together.

As I look through the scraps I gathered from my pre-cut squares box to sew into this border...how many decades of scraps are represented here?

I spot a print I know is from the 1980s as I used that print (in a different color) when Jason was a baby.  He's going to be 43 in November.

There are recycled fabrics, civil war repros mixed with Kaffe, novelties, more contemporary/modern prints...what quilts and previous projects were these scraps left from?

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You'll Never Guess Where!

It was all by accident.

I had literally given up.

I had gone through every drawer, every file folder, every shelf - even rearranging some things in the process.

(And yes, I admit I even decluttered and threw some stuff out in the process...because...might as well?)

And then while doing something totally unrelated -

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