Happy New Year, people! After last year, I know well enough to not necessarily over promise anything, because well, most of last year was HUGE eyeopener for most of us in so many ways! But I also do believe in starting over, planning, reflecting, and moving forward...
So here we are at the end of the year 2020. Wow...
Good morning there, my friends. I am so happy to be back to the blogging. It has been a long summer and an even longer autumn here at the Blue Nickel. We emptied and sold my Dad's house and now our house is sold and we...
Hey there, Welcome to this morning! I thought I would wake your day up with this hot pink quilted image from a new book on Color/Thread and how they interact in Quilting by my friend Teri Lucas ! Teri and I go way back! To 2011...
So do you remember back to the beginning of this year? I barely do. One of my big goals this year was to bring new life into my blog. It is not easy because it is so much more work than Instagram! But you can say...
My world changed again about two weeks ago. I knew it was coming but didn't realize how difficult this was going to be. Or how broken I would feel inside in spite of having told myself I would be ready for it. I hadn't heard from...
So my friend Terry Atkinson and Gudrun Erla called a whole bunch of creative people together to take "surprise" visits of their studios, your truly included. And well, I am pretty sure I have mentioned that my studio is in serious upheaval as we prepare...
Welcome to Kristen Balouch's Enchanted Kingdom! I have been sitting with this fat quarter bundle for awhile trying to think what bigger project that I wanted to do with it. I started playing with it awhile ago here, but I got distracted for a bit....
Welcome to my first Quilter interview of the year. You know the best part of quilting besides playing with color, fabric, needles and thread is getting to meet creative people. Don't you agree? And while we are all more or less stuck at home. I thought...
I am a Hoarder Saver, you know. I save all of those little corner pieces that get cut off of mitered joints on binding and the corners of squares and rectangles when you add a corner - Snowball block style. And then eventually they get...