Our guild is having a quilt show in a couple of weeks and they were hoping to get 200 quilts to hang but were short a few from what I heard. There are plenty of people who make quilts specifically for shows – we have an art quilter in our machine quilting bee that I…
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The Splendid Sampler – complete!
Kathy, thank you for being the “kick in the pants” to get me back on the blog again. I did indeed finally finish The Splendid Sampler quilt and yes, that finger that was sewn through was a huge factor in why it’s taken me so long. That hurt. It still hurts. Anything that involves using…
bordering the Splendid Sampler
Shiver me timbers! An arctic freeze passed through our fair town today and temps were in the 50’s this morning. As I was picking up a few things in the backyard I came across one of many sights of spring. I don’t recall what this is called, but it ends up making enormous leaves and…
finished quilting the blocks
I had 2 rows to go by the time I picked this up this evening and decided one way or the other I was going to finish the blocks tonight. I still have the borders to go but I’ve drawn something out that I’m hoping to use. I can’t believe I quilted all of that…
still quilting the Splendid Sampler
I went to a machine quilting bee this evening – my first time there – and it was a lot of fun! There were quilters who quilt on a domestic machine, sit-down, and long arms. Some who quilt for themselves, some who get paid or even make a profession of it, some who have quilts…
more Splendid Sampler quilting
I am officially halfway finished with quilting the Splendid Sampler. Needless to say, I haven’t been sewing at all. I’ve been trying to come up with some different quilting designs in as many blocks as I can. Just as I shut down tonight, I realized I haven’t even done some easy ones, like meandering circles….
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 100 – Centered
I did it! 100 blocks! And this one wasn’t as easy as it looks, thanks to 3/4″ squares in the light blue corners. I thought for some reason that Pat had the last block so I figured it would be applique but this one is actually by Kate Spain. I wonder how many dies I…
Block 99 – Four Corner Spinwheel
We are so close! I’m kind of amazed I actually kept up with this quilt. 2 blocks a week for a year is a long time. I remember last year, actually December 2015, thinking maybe I would try my hand at the 365 quilt. I signed up for emails and then common sense set in…
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…
Block 96 – In the Sunshine
Oops; I just realized I didn’t take a photo of the actual finished block. I was pretty close at this point – I was just about to stitch around the edges of it. As we finish up the last few blocks, I’ve been working to make sure the outer portions of each block line up…