Author: Rachel Burns

On Friday, I finished up work a little early and thought about taking a nap on the couch before picking up the kids from the bus stop. As I approached the couch, however, I noticed the throw cushion covers. “I am getting tired of these,” I thought. This makes sense because we have had them […]

I texted this to Amanda last month, and she responded as I expected: “BABY QUILT!!” When you know, you know. Baby quilts are fun, because they are small and also because they are so cute. I spent more time than I care to admit on the internet scrolling Etsy for baby quilt fabric until I […]

Yesterday we visited my in-laws, and their neighbor, Mrs. B, invited my mother-in-law and me to her house to look at her grandmother’s quilts. (She knows I love quilts.) Mrs. B’s grandmother was not only an amazing quilter, hand piecing, quilting, and binding, she was also very talented with embroidery. There were whole cloth quilts […]

While I was visiting my parents in Michigan, I decided to make my daughter a quilt for her birthday. “When I get home, I’ll have 5 days. Day 1, pick our fabric from my stash. Day 2, cut. Day 3, piece. Day 4, baste, Day 5, quilt and bind. I can totally do this.” Dear […]

When I found out that one of my kids’ day care teachers was retiring, my first instinct was to make her a quilt. She changed both of my kids’ diapers and cared for them when they were little babies. She also became a special friend throughout all of the political turmoil of the past few […]

In my first blog post on this site, I mentioned that I was working on a secret project. I wanted to keep it secret because I figured that I’d share this blog with my mom before I finished the quilts but no. I guess I should do that. Increase our readership! I saw the Lakeside […]

I guess today is the day for quilt blogging, I may write 4 posts in one day after 4 months of doing nothing related to blogging. In my last post, I mentioned the Etsy fabric buying spree at the beginning of the year… quilt 2 is one of the products of that late night online […]

Months have gone by since my most recent post where I stated my goal of making 12 quilts in 2021. I think I’m a bit behind! I’m definitely behind on blogging them… The first quilt I completed this year was a “scrap buster” that I made while waiting to receive an insane fabric order. Etsy […]

Rachel: Why are we writing this blog?  Amanda: If I knew how to make a shrugging emoji on this blog I would put that here! I suppose because it seemed fun and what else do we have to do? Although, we have lots of other things to do, e.g. work, answer the daily question “what […]