Argh! It always helps me to let a quilt hang for a few days so that I can see if I’ve messed anything up. This quilt is 96×96″ so sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, so I took a picture of it and it was immediately obvious that the dark red…
Category: Ebony Love
sampler quilting on the Splendid Sampler
2017 has been off to a crazy start. I’m going to my second funeral of the month in 2 days and we have a new car after a teen driver didn’t see our SUV and totaled our car – hers doesn’t look much better. Instead of sewing, it seems like I’ve spent all my free…
Block 98 – Fleur de Lei
Today’s blog post is a mashup of several projects – just individual blocks here and there. I bought a Quilter’s Planner at the end of the year to help me keep track of my quilting projects. Overall it’s worked well – I have probably used it more to track what I did each day after…
Block 97 – First Purse
This block may not look like much at first glance. That’s because it’s missing the final ingredient. This is a purse – a small hand purse that has a small clasp at the top which is made out of 2 buttons. Looking back, it probably wasn’t too bright to sew the buttons on the other…