Saturday morning I was suddenly struck by the urge to make a quilt, which excited me a lot. I picked out some fabric and a simple design inspired by the ugly carpet in my apartment hallway, and Sunday I finished all 36 blocks in about 3 hours. Not sure when I'll actually finish the thing, but I love the colors and how it's going so far.

I'm Leah. I love making pretty things with fabric, paper, and sometimes, pixels and fonts. These days, though, it's mostly fabric. I also love tv on dvd and sometimes I talk about my cats too much. I live in Alexandria, VA, with my husband Chris and our son Joey, who was born on Christmas Eve last year. Chris is a musician in The US Army Band "Pershing's Own", and I make
