My name is Elaine Wick Poplin. I’m 50, a wife of a wonderful man, mom of two great young adults, a quilter that loves multiple styles and techniques, and a retired high school mathematics teacher. I’m just getting started as a quilting instructor and lecturer and have traveled around a little for that, and hopefully I’ll be able to do that more in the future. I have also started teaching online classes via Zoom, putting my pandemic classroom experience to good use! It never occurred to me how handy that knowledge learned through trauma would become when things settled back down.

I love traditional quilting, art quilting, modern quilting, and improv quilting. I have a big stash of batiks (LOVE THEM), a stash of modern fabrics (LOVE THEM), a lot of Cherrywood hand-dyes (LOVE THEM), and more ideas than hours in the day to sew. I try to find some time every single day to putter around in my sewing room.

I do my machine quilting myself, using an Innova Classic 22″ longarm quilting machine. My piecing is done on a Janome Memory Craft 7700QCP.

This blog has been active in spurts since 2005, when it started as a mommyblog and place to share scrapbook pages with friends around the world. Now I keep it because it’s fun to look back at what I’ve done and the stories behind the things that I’ve made. Most of the links in the very early posts are dead (especially if they went to photos, which I used to store on other sites), but the stories about my early parenting days may amuse you if you choose to click back.

I primarily talk about sewing and quilting, parenting, math, organization (or my lack thereof) and cats here. Other things can get too contentious so I just don’t. I’m glad that you’re here, and I hope you’ll spend some time wandering around. Don’t forget to say hello!