Darling Millie

How to Make a 'Nip Sack Start with a piece of fabric. It has to be a "long rectangle" or the size of two squares sitting next...

(This is the last step in the series of blogs about making a kitty quilt. At the bottom of this blog there is some news. As always, you ca...

Mom machine quilts the kitty quilts by sewing a line of stitches between each of the four rows of blocks. She sews very close the the edge o...

Once you have your kitty quilt top made, you have to make a kitty quilt sandwich. (Don't worry, it's not made from real kitties.) Ir...

You've got all your blocks made. You've played with them on the floor so you've got them the way you want them. Now you just hav...

You've got your pieces, now you have some fun. Start putting them together. For a kitty quilt, you need 4 rows of 4. So you start lay...

You have your strips cut into "chunks." Now you will make 6" blocks by putting a little one and a medium one together. Or yo...

Now that you have all those long pairs of strips, you cut them into smaller pieces. Since the kitty quilts are 24" square, Mom wants b...

Now that the strips are all sewn together, you have to iron them. Mom presses the skinny side over like this. There's a lot of ironing.

Once the strips are cut, you sew them together. Mom sews a skinny one to a fat one to make pairs. But first she has to decide which to sew...