Category Archives: craft show

Well, Hello!

Well, Hello!

It has been almost one year since I have posted. It was a most depressing year with a quarantine, political unrest, remote learning, vaccine development, and mask wearing.

You’d think with all that home time, I’d have done a lot of crafting. Not so. Moving to our second home in Charlotte, homeschooling, and clearing out Mama’s house have been my main occupations.

I went a year without seeing my friend, Laura. Now, we’re able to visit, and we are still planning to work a craft show.

Envelopes from magazine pages

My current project is making gift envelopes from magazine and catalog pages. Laura and I will use these to package jewelry that we sell at said craft show.

This one is from a quilt catalog

This is my favorite video on making envelopes:

This one is from the same quilting catalog

I’m enjoying this quite a bit!

Quilt Show Favorites!

Quilt Show Favorites!
Quilt Show Favorites!

I attended the Forsyth Piecemakers and Quilters Guild Show last Saturday. Here are a few of my favorite quilts. I’ll add more and commentary a little later. This Carolina Lily was my personal favorite. It won “Best Hand Quilting.”


This purple starburst quilt won “Best of Show.”


Several of the quilts I liked were appliqued:

I love chickens!

Don’t faint!

Don’t faint!
Don’t faint!


There’s a quilt show AND a bead show in Charlotte this weekend, and I have decided to go home! Adrianne, my daughter, said last night that if I lived to be 90+ and just made stuff out of my stash, I probably wouldn’t get it all done. She’s probably right! If I go to either show, I’ll just hit the vendors. I confess, I am a craft junk junkie!