A friend posted that a blogger I know needed pattern testers to test out a quilting pattern. One look at Preeti’s (sewpreetiquilts.blogspot.com) sample and I was more than excited to put my hand up to test the pattern! This pattern, Novella, is too adorable for words for a cat lover like me. It was so…

Good progress is being made on my scrappy bear claw quilt
My scrappy bear claw quilt has been making slow but steady progress over the last few months. From my making a huge pile of bear claw blocks with scraps both lovely and ugly: To putting them together with a narrow (1 inch finished) sashing and using a common yet very colorful fabric as cornerstones: Here…