and sometimes sews…
Finally, something new and totally without strings attached! It’s not often that I have time to make something purely for the joy of making it. A while back (well over a year), I took a class at our local fabric store, G-street Fabrics, in something I’d been wanting to learn about for a long time: Kaleidoscope quilts. [...]
Be sure to bring a quilt. So I have these two friends. And they are good friends. And for the last couple years they’ve been living in Frankfurt, Germany. I missed them. A lot. Last May, I guess it was, we got a call from Frankfurt that they were finally going to get married! Hip, [...]
Pirate ship Necktie Originally uploaded by alyson_olander Strictly speaking, this was not a holiday gift. My dad’s birthday falls just a few days prior to Christmas and, because I understand how much it must suck to get a load of Christmas ‘n’ birthday combined gifts each year, I make a concerted effort to give him [...]
Jewelry Pouches Originally uploaded by alyson_olander Welcome to the first in my series of holiday gift posts! I handed these cute little pouches out last night to our daycare providers during their holiday party. I wish I could take credit for the design, but I can’t – they came from Quilting Arts Magazine special Gifts issue [...]
My husband tells me that even though I can’t write much about what I am currently working on, I should make a post to that affect. But I know you want to hear more than that, now don’t you? Like, where the heck I have been for the last 5-ish months? And what’s been going [...]
