I think our quilt group had the largest number yet go on our road trip yesterday. I don’t know how many there were on the bus but it seemed like I only recognized half of them. Lots of quilters in our area! It was in a venue with quite a few vendors which was nice…
Month: July 2016
Block 48 – Whim
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ I took one look at today’s block and let out a “woo hoo!”. It’s a beginner’s paper piecing block. I could probably knock this one out in 10 minutes! Except I didn’t catch that I had a piece of fabric that didn’t lay flat…
Hand binding
I said I wasn’t going to do any more hand binding because it takes a while. But it just looks so much better. I need to improve my machine binding skills. Ha ha!
Block 47 – Circle of Love
Geta Grama is a favorite designer of mine and I’ve been looking forward to her block for months. I knew it would be a challenge, and she didn’t disappoint. It might be applique, but as usual she kicked it up a notch. First, it has 17 pieces in a 6″ block, but it’s how the…
wedding quilt
We received a wedding invitation a month ago for a wedding; I had known about it for a while but was holding off to starting a quilt until I received the invitation. That wasn’t such a great plan because the clock was ticking the minute I got it. I had thought originally I would make…
Block 46 Twirl Time!
What’s wrong with this finished picture? Or put another way – theoretically…if I person accidentally made a rotated image of the pattern, is it still the same pattern or is it a new one? My apologies to the wonderful designer, the very talented Sarah Maxwell. I had this bright idea that I would paper piece…
Quilt guild name tag
That was quick! Today over lunch, I basted and quilted the block I sew yesterday. Then I cut 2 pieces fur the back and basted and quilted them together. . I cut 2 long pieces 5/8″ wide and ran them each through the same stem maker I used for the Bloom quilt. After that,…
Block #45 – Sewing Nut
I’m caught up – again! At least for now. This is another applique block if that isn’t obvious. When I first saw this block, I just took in what it looked like – a squirrel – and couldn’t imagine how on earth she came up with this as a design. Then I saw the title…
Block# 44 – Stitch in the Garden
Ack! I nearly destroyed this block before I ever started on it. This was almost entirely embroidery so I used the same Sulky stabilizer that I’ve used previously. This one calls for some applique on the 3 spools so I used Heat ‘n Bond on the back of the fabric. And then….I don’t know if…
friends
The quilt was finished in a week – including hand binding. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. It’s hard even to write this blog post because it’s just so personal. There’s a real person behind this. He has an extremely fast growing and fast moving cancerous brain tumor…glioblastoma multiforme. I can’t even pronounce…
college quilt is finished!
Yay! It’s done! Well other than washing and drying but someone else decided this exact moment was the right time to throw a load of dirty clothes into the washing machine. I think I can manage that in the next month though! Save
ready for binding!
I finally knocked out the rest of the quilting on the college quilt. I ran out of thread with one 6″ block to go but I went ahead and wound a full bobbin. Surely I’ll use navy blue thread again – which is what I have on the bottom. I thought about tracing around each…