Author: Jane Hauprich

Well, as it is New Year’s Eve, I thought it would be a good opportunity to reflect on  2014. On a personal note, there were a couple of family milestones this year!!  We welcomed our first grandchild in June and being a grandparent is amazing!!  In October, we welcomed our wonderful new daughter-in-law into the family….

I would like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas!!!!

I wrote a post awhile ago on the hand-embroidered quilts that I have had the pleasure of quilting, and now want to give some attention to the machine-applique quilts that I have also had the pleasure to quilt. Machine appliqué is not for everyone…..the same as hand-applique isn’t.  I am not a fan of doing hand applique…

So here I am finding myself deciding to do a OBW for a Christmas present.  I really don’t have time for this, but I guess I work well under pressure? Anyway, I found this fabric on the sale rack at Olde City Quilt Shop in Burlington, NJ, where I had visited to attend a Kaffe…