SunbonnetSmart | Creating Health and Abundance

Have you ever been on a course of action and, all of a sudden, there are side roads you didn’t anticipate, leading off into areas unknown?
Have you ever  had overwhelming life events change your direction before you know what has happened to you? Whoa! That’s what happened to me in January, and let me tell you, I am just now getting back in the swing of things....

Even after a lifetime of quilting, I am always amazed at how changing the colors of a quilt pattern can drastically alter the visual effect.
This morning, when curating Internet articles for my SunbonnetSmart Newsflash, I found a wonderful post by AnneMarie Chany, the genius behind the web site and blog, “Gen X Quilters.” The timing on the post couldn’t be better as, with a theme of, “chocolate...

Looking through my list of wonderful quilting web sites I keep handy, I hit a lollapaloozer of a post.
Checking up on the latest with Rebecca at, “Cheeky Cognoscenti,” I read her post from yesterday, Saturday, November 26, 2016, and it wore me out. Look at what she has accomplished and still has enough strength to blog about it! #AMAZing...

With the advent of modern quick piecing methods, it’s easy to assume we time-pressed quilters invented all of our time-saving, stash-busting options. When it comes to string quilts, though, quilters long gone by, regularly used the pattern. Let’s look...