Our family vacations tend to center around what my husband and kids enjoy--Civil War battlefields & other historic sites, museums, z...

Vicki Hodge from "What a Load of Scrap"  celebrated her first year of blogging with a fabulous fabric giveaway--a chance to wi...

As you can see, I finally settled on a traditional layout for my Carolina Lily quilt. Plain alternate blocks give those busy lilies s...

With a betrothal announced, I finally had an incentive to get this quilt finished. As usual though, I couldn’t do it myself. That’s what I ...

To make a long story short, I nixed the urn idea and added stems and leaves to the lily pattern. Choosing a less intense red fabric helped...

Let me put these Carolina Lily blocks in a clearer context for you. Eighteen years ago, I belonged to a bee group that stitched and swappe...

Do you know that expression, " gild the lily "? It means  "an attempt to improve something that is already fine the way it i...