Larkspur Lane Designs

This is a picture of my friend Cathy putting together kits for my OH CHRISTMAS TREE quilt (that isn't in this picture, unfortunately). I...

This is the Anthanaeum Hotel at Chautauqua Institution. I practically had to stand in the lake to get the whole thing in the picture! It is ...

This is it, the last day to get anything done for Chautauqua. I have a couple more things to print and fold, but I will have to wait until I...

I still need to do a lot before I head to Chautauqua Institution on Friday, but I am SO looking forward to the weekend, I don't mind doi...

I took this picture on the last day of the Quilting Around Chautauqua event in 2007. It was a beautiful Sunday morning, and my friend and I...

In a couple of weeks, ...no...wait, make that about 11 days, I will be heading to Chautauqua Institution for a wonderful event called Quilti...

Turning what you love to do into a profitable business, isn't easy. It is a long, and sometimes difficult task, and at times, you consid...

Rather than embarrass my stepmother-in-law and cause another family feud, I will let go of my frustration here. My SMIL is constantly forwar...

Very rarely do I ever sleep past 7:00am. Most mornings, I am up before my alarm goes off. But just because I am up, doesn't mean I'm...

Well, its official, I picked up my copy of Better Homes and Gardens Quilt Sampler yesterday and my local quilt shop is there in all its glor...

Nothing like a deadline to spur me on. The self-imposed ones are easy to ignore, but if you've got a pattern for sale on someone else...

Now that I've told you about the worst quilt shop I've ever been to, maybe we should visit the other side of the coin. Do you have a...

I used to think there was no such thing as a bad quilt shop, but after almost 9 years of quilting, I'm finding that's simply not tru...

I got a lot of positive responses about the free pattern I offered yesterday, so I have decided to go ahead and produce a printed version of...

This isn't a very good picture, but this is one of my very first quilt designs. I made this quilt for a friend's daughter and have ...

I am sitting here in the Westfield Library again, trying to keep up with emails, and blogging, while waiting for my laundry to dry at the la...

I am fortunate to have a cottage on Lake Erie at which I get to spend one week a summer. This is that week. Our cottage is in Westfield, New...

Why is there so much work involved in going on vacation? I still have to finish the laundry so I have clothes to pack for my kids and myself...

What a great weekend! My friend, Kourtney Kenzie, fellow quilter/designer, came to stay with me for a couple of days of sewing, laughing, pl...

Another version of my design, Oh Christmas Tree, appeared in QUILT IT FOR CHRISTMAS 2008. Since that publication, I have redesigned the qui...