I absolutely love this quilt!  If it had been in a shop rather than coming to me for repair, I might have just "had" to buy it.  P...

  This quilt is basically a utility comforter.  It's made of large scraps and tied with yarn.  The ties are done with many colors that...

  I fell in love with this quilt while rebinding it and patching a few torn pieces.   It's a great set of blocks, each one different, to...

  This is a stand-out crazy quilt, isn't it?   I generally think of Victorian crazies as having so many more blacks and maroons, browns ...

 Here's a gorgeous quilt.  It's as simple as that. This quilt came to me for repair.  The quilt dates to c1850.  As old as it is, it...

  Just about three years ago, I posted about a quilt I repaired.  The great-granddaughter who brought me the quilt for repair wrote the ...

I'm happy to say that I got to spend an afternoon (almost two weeks ago now) in Chicago with Elizabeth Townsend-Gard, her grad student M...

My mother-in-law Jeanie knew how to dress well and properly.  All the time.  All occasions.  This photo was taken in 1961.  She is stan...

One of the nicest things about repairing quilts is that some really marvelous quilts cross my path.  I get to see and work on such a wide ra...

What really intrigued me about this quilt were the "ties".  Instead of the usual yarn or thread knotting, this quilter "tied...

I did a tiny bit of repair on this jacket, and fell in love with the buttons.  It's a cropped polar fleece jacket from the late 198...

I do love walking around with my phone/camera, i.e. tiny magic box that can do anything.  ;-) The other day, I was leaving my friend Julia...

For the past few years, I've been using photography as a means to mindfulness and awareness.  I've been taking daily photos of l...

The Double Wedding Ring pattern was sure popular in the 1930s!  This spring, I've had two here for repairs in the same month.  When I bl...

This quilt combines many of my criteria for a wonderful quilt - it has a creative design, a great story, and it's signed and dated! ...