I’m working on the border of Elvis and that can only mean one thing – I am nearing the end of the quilting! I should have this done sometime today then I’ll get the binding on sometime this weekend. And then…a month with my scissors to snip all the loose threads that inevitably come out…
Month: April 2016
more paper piecing
Something tells me I’m just getting started with the idea of paper piecing and English paper piecing. Carolyn McCormick created and sells the handiest ruler called “Add A Quarter” like in the photo above. I have one, except mine is pink! She does some phenomenal quilts out of paper piecing – some with blocks as small…
Machine Quilting Party # 4
I haven’t posted as many photos of this particular sew-along but that’s because there will be just 12 large blocks, one per month. To put that in perspective, the Bloom sew-along that I’m doing is weekly for 20 weeks. The Splendid Sampler is semi-weekly with blocks that are released on Sundays and Thursdays. I decided…
Bloom block 12
Wow, and like that we’re already 60% through the Bloom quilt. I think I mentioned last week that I traced around the Pellon, sewed it to the individual shapes and basted those onto the background fabric before I left for the weekend. I was 35,000 feet in the air on the way to my destination when…
Block 15 – Family Affair
Back home in the evening and what did I see? A paper pieced block Now easy for me! That might be stretching the truth; I sewed almost every seam twice. But it was so much easier because by unexpected good fortune, I had just practiced paper piecing last week. I placed one that was a little short…
Block 14 – Flying High
Many thanks go out to Janet Clare for a timely block for Thursday’s Splendid Sampler, as I will be flying out of state this morning for a long weekend. I didn’t want to stretch the fabric since it’s so tiny, so I glue basted the little birds on before I finished it. The son and his friend were asking last…