I bought a layer cake package of Mama Said Sew II from my LQS and have been looking for a pattern to use it with. I saw a pineapple block in red, white, and black on Instagram that caught my eye. Too bad I prefer traditional piecing over paper piecing. But then I found a tutorial on Crazy…
Month: March 2016
Iowa – block 10 of Splendid Sampler
This week’s block is named Iowa, or more commonly known as the snowball block. You can find a link (for now) to it at The Splendid Sampler . The first thing I did was to look at the fabrics I’ve been using and decide on the 4 (plus 1 contrast) fabrics I wanted to use. I had…
Bloom Block 9
One little block, and yet it means that for a day or so, I am officially caught up on all my sewing projects. I have the behemoth quilting project ahead of me (king sized quilt) so I have plenty to keep me busy in the meantime but since that one is a surprise I won’t…
Quilting a king
I started quilting this one last night. It’s 10 feet by 10 feet! I can’t show a picture of the quilt top yet since the recipient hasn’t seen it yet. I’m starting with stitch in the ditch along key places. That alone will probably take a few days since I take breaks along the way….
Bloom block x 8
I am slowly catching up this week. I finally got the sashing on the eighth block so I sewed it to 7 then sewed the second row to the top row. I should go ahead and cut and sew the top row of sashing that will attach at the very top, but I’m waiting to…
Local Quilt Shop – SS 9
Sunday’s block for The Splendid Sampler is named Local Quilt Shop. I haven’t looked at others but I’d be willing to bet a number of other people substituted the name of their own LQS in place where that was designed to be written. There are 3 stores within 10-15 minutes of me, and several in…
Bloom block # 8
It took me a week, I still don’t have the sashing on here but the hard part is done. This week’s block had the most pieces yet on a block which was part of the reason it took he longer. A very busy work week that had me working through lunch and late into the…
Turning the corner
I’m behind in last week’s sewing. I haven’t finished my Bloom block yet, and since it’s Sunday that means a new Splendid Sampler block came out. There are generally 2 schools of thought – start where you left off and catch up, or pick up with the rest of the group where they currently are…
Friends Around the Square – SS 8
I officially have more blocks in the Pat Sloan QAL than I do for the one with Bee In My Bonnet!
What’s wrong with this picture?
Measure twice cut once doesn’t apply when I cut 2 of each square when I only needed one. No I am not making a second quilt! However…I found out later that I accidentally turned the inside piece the wrong way – that’s not supposed to be a pinwheel! I’ll correct it at another time. The…
Quilting on the midarm
I have a habit, at least on patchwork, of quilting in cursive either words or phrases. I forget what all I “wrote” on my daughter’s quilt but it included her name, the year I made it; I had a house and trees and a little family that I stitched into it; there were hearts and…