<p>There is probably a good reason why magazine editors think green is a curse on a magazine cover. (It&#8217;s true!)  Yet, I love green. Especially as spring peeks coquettishly around the corner. Granted, spring comes sooner for some than others&#8211;we&#8217;ll be picking daffodils before too long in these parts&#8211;but I think we&#8217;re all looking forward [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Photoshop. It&#8217;s a tricky beast. One of the reasons I love to blog is because it forces me to learn more about photography and Photoshop. But boy these guys are time-consuming. When I was prepping my quilting kit post, I tried three separate times to get a decent photo of my supplies. The first two [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I started piecing the tree quilt for my friend today. I&#8217;ve alternated between staring at and ignoring a table full of little squares and rectangles for a few weeks now, and today struck me as a day to do something about it. I haven&#8217;t finished cutting yet, but I needed a clearer sense of what [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I have a confession. I&#8217;m not always the best at using the right tools for a given task. I&#8217;d often rather use what I have on hand than go out and spend money on something I&#8217;d only use for one project. Examples: I use a tea strainer in lieu of a flour sifter. The time [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Look what came in the mail this weekend! As Garrett said, &#8220;Maegan, if y0u were a fabric, this might be it.&#8221; Now, the hard part. What do I do with it? &nbsp; Purchased from Amanda at Westwood Acres.</p>

<p>So many of my favorite fabric designs are those that have a hand-drawn look to them. Many designers, such as Heather Ross, start their fabric designs with pencil on paper. It results in a lovely, organic design that has a surprisingly fresh finish. Here are a handful of my favorites: 1. Out to Sea in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>One of my proudest quilting accomplishments thus far is my Quilt  in a Day, or what I&#8217;m jokingly referring to as my Roman Holiday quilt (&#8220;Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day&#8221; + holiday gift&#8230; get it?). Every year, my closest friends and I draw names for a Secret Santa-type gift exchange. After I received my [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It was a very quilty Christmas here at Chez Casa. I worked on this quilt for my cousin for quite some time, because I kept measuring things incorrectly and ending up with too little fabric. I&#8217;m very much a &#8220;measure twice, cut once&#8221; kind of gal, but I still couldn&#8217;t get it right. Nonetheless, this one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I don&#8217;t hop on many bandwagons. I typically watch them drive past while I&#8217;m walking down Bland Lane in my sensible shoes on my way to the Boring Store. But every once in a while, there&#8217;s a bandwagon that catches my eye. This time, it&#8217;s the Festivus bandwagon.  Festivus is a  season for giving (but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Next week is the annual Theme Week at my office, which includes three days of ridiculous, themed outfits (and one day of competitive breakfast-making&#8230; and one day off). We all had a chance to throw theme ideas in the hat and somehow two of mine were chosen this year (humblebrag). We have: Sweater Day Dress [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I just realized that I hadn&#8217;t actually posted a full photo of the front of Quilt #2. And then I remembered that&#8217;s because I didn&#8217;t really get a good picture of it before it went to its new home. I feel like I&#8217;ve talked about it enough in previous posts that I&#8217;ll just leave this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When it was time to begin my second quilt, it felt like a momentous occasion. I could see a yet-unwritten story in all of those quilts I was destined to make. These quilts will wrap around friends and cousins and mothers and even little babies that haven&#8217;t begun to be imagined. All of these quilts [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Boy did I send a lot of time on this quilt. I received the fabric as a gift back in August and had the most trouble deciding what I wanted to do with it, pattern-wise. The fabric is Serenade by Kate Spain and I love it, but there is a lot going on&#8211;in color and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Garrett found this gif on imgur and it has made all of the difference in understanding the problem I was having while finishing my previous quilt (pictures to come!). I thought I&#8217;d share in case it is helpful to anyone else. At the very least, it&#8217;ll mesmerize you for a few minutes. Source: imgur</p>

<p>A friend made my week yesterday when she asked how much I would charge to make her a quilt. I know just how much I don&#8217;t know about making quilts, and my craftsmanship leaves a lot to be desired, but I was honored nonetheless. Since she has taken up painting in the last year, I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My Flea Market Fancy quilt is finished and laying happily on my bed (it is not, at it appears here, laying folded up under a cat named George Foreman). So that&#8217;s awesome. What&#8217;s even more awesome is that I&#8217;m on my way to finishing my second quilt. It sounds like I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I started this quilt in an effort to preserve my sanity. I really needed to pour myself into a non-work-related project, and one day I suddenly decided that a quilt was the medicine I needed. The fact that I had never made one wasn&#8217;t going to stop me. One great thing about quilts is that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I&#8217;ve haven&#8217;t worn many animal prints, but when I see a dress (or skirt) with a creature on it, I wants it. Here, I&#8217;ve picked out just a few frocks that feature frolicking felines, foxes, and feathered friends (also chipmunks, but that doesn&#8217;t start with &#8220;f.&#8221;) 1. Camille Printed Dress by Dear Creatures 2. Fox [&hellip;]</p>

<p>At the wedding last weekend, the couple passed out adorable cards that were in the style of a library reference card (adorable, right?). The cards took the place of a traditional guest book and asked each guest for their name, title of their favorite book, and some advice or well-wishes for the couple. When it [&hellip;]</p>