BurnsFamily Blog

In a dryer?!? No, silly! (Yeah, that’s what I thought too…)

On Sunday we had an Easter dinner for some of our friends. We needed to have room to seat 11 people. Our dining room table seats 4. This proved to be a small problem. A six foot banquet table and 3 sheets of plywood, joined together with our existing table, created a 12 foot [...]

In 2004 I appeared on a Carol Duvall Christmas special and presented my package pillows. These are pillows that I created in the shape of packages that I put under my Christmas tree each year. I usually make them out of scraps of fabric that I have lying around. Basic instructions for the pillows can [...]

Business is picking up for Studio 1A, so we decided to clean up the place, add some artwork and apply some sound deadening to the room.
The results are nothing short of amazing. Thank God I have Julie to help turn my ideas into reality!

I spent the week in San Francisco with Bill this week, so I decided to take along some fabric to keep me busy. I decided to work on a new jacket to wear when I travel back east. I decided to use a pattern from Saf-T-Pockets called Rochelle’s  Reversible. I have only followed a couple [...]

Last week I took a class with Nancy Brenan Daniel. I signed up at the last minute and didn’t really know what to expect, but I had a great time. We started with strip sets and cut them at an angle. This resulted in two different squares, a light and a dark.
Part of this [...]

Bill gave me a new purse for Christmas. Unfortunately my old purse had a built in wallet and the new one didn’t. I wanted to use the new purse but couldn’t until I made a wallet to go inside. Thankfully I found a great wallet pattern at the last Quilt show I attended. I pulled [...]