Kelly Ann's Blog

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Category: Crafting

Covers all things crafting…quilting…sewing…stitching…painting…anything to explore the arts

  • In 2019 I closed my brick & mortar quilt shop and was looking forward to running an online business focusing on hand-dyed wool, patterns and kits and fun wooly things. It took some time to figure out work space and start loading all kinds of goodies to the website, www.nekedsheepwool.com and moving forward with this…

  • Mother Nature is off her meds here in Virginia… 78 tomorrow and check out Saturday…do you see those snow flakes… ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? We traveled to North Carolina this weekend and between the time we left and returned my Bleeding Hearts are starting to pop up through the ground. I do have a few…

  • I have tulips on the brain….first up… I tried my hand at making my own rubber stamp using a lino cutter and small pieces of rubber designed for stamps…it started with a mess and ended with this I say not bad for my first time….and I only slipped and hit my finger once so I’ll…

  • So…this story starts in the year 2000ish… I received some pretty fat quarters for Christmas from my BFF who lived in Hawaii at the time. The fat quarters were fallish colors and as soon as I saw them I knew I wanted to make a Churn Dash block In my mind I could see the…

  • I was straightening up my sewing room and came across some blank pillow covers and had to think for a few minutes about why I bought them….and then it hit me…I follow My 100 Year Old Home on IG and read her blog and she does some really cute things with the pillow covers, paint…

  • While not my usual way of making a throw…quilting is normally my go-to…this throw should have a disclaimer attached to it. First, until I started this one I had not picked up a hook in many many years…second…I started this in 2020 during the Covid, put it aside to start something else, and didn’t pick…