Here’s what I’ve been working on! I have one of these layouts in mind but I started thinking…why not get input from other people? The options are as follows. If you don’t have an opinion, no worries but it won’t get counted in the tally…since one of these will be chosen. Yes, there are 2…
Category: Miscellaneous
more kitty adventures
I don’t know how much thread I’ve used to make this En Provence quilt so far, but I’m sure it’s twice as much as was required because I’ve taken out half of it. Wow is it ever easy to flip some of those blocks around. This picture is taken at a slight angle because the…
En Provence Reveal
Yes, I have a mistake in there. There are so many pieces in this quilt! Bonnie surprised me yesterday morning with the final clue but also the entire layout. This is the first time I’ve ever followed in real time on one of her mystery quilts. I downloaded last year’s pattern afterwards – not sure…
how awesome is this!
The letter carrier dropped off the mail just as we were headed out the door last night. What a surprise I had when I opened the package! A couple of weeks ago I had a notification that I was the lucky recipient of Christmas ornaments from a blog that I follow. She asked me to…
More BSQ blocks
Crikey. I’ll never keep these organized at this rate. I had this great idea that I would have one blog post per block like I’ve done with the Splendid Sampler but I didn’t keep them straight in what order I did them. To add to that, I’m not sewing them in numerical order, alphabetical order,…
basting with glue sticks
I had a couple of questions from my last post regarding the glue stick for basting so I thought I’d make a post out of it. The first question was “Does it wash out or are you left with glue in the quilt forever?” and the second was “Does it gunk up your machine needle?”…
October was a very good month
Wow, today was full of great surprises from start to finish. Amy Ellis posted that we were ready to start the next block for her quilt sampler. This month is for large 18″ Greek cross blocks. I spent most of my lunch hour picking out fabric and finished one block before I had to get…
Block 82 – Under the Apple Tree
I was thinking this afternoon as I finished this up I didn’t know why it took me so long to finish this block. But then I remembered that I was busy quilting 3 tops with my Avante when this one came out so I put it off on purpose. I cut each of the pieces…
Maybe Storm at Sea?
I am absolutely not planning to start sewing this anytime soon – and by soon I mean tomorrow – haha! No seriously, I won’t be sewing this in the near future; I have the final machine quilting block coming out on Thursday. That same day is a Splendid Sampler block, and Amy Ellis has said…
2nd of 2 Star Wars quilts done!
Woo hoo! Let’s hear it for vacation time! I’d say I’m working hard at hardly working but truthfully I’m working at non-paid things this week. It’s all good stuff though! It’s 70 degrees outside with a beautiful blue sky if you can’t tell from the picture. The last quilt I followed a pantograph; for this…
13 minutes to go!
I timed myself how long it took me to quilt a row and it was 13 and a half minutes. I could’ve actually finished quilting the first top tonight, but we needed to make a run to the grocery store. To say I’ve been quilting morning, noon, and night is a literal sentence – I’ve…
Block 77 – Prism
I didn’t see any good reason to cut out 1″ strips to make this block when I could easily paper piece it. Rather than lay it out in EQ7, I just made 2 copies of the pattern, cut 1/4″ around each of the 2 main sections and paper pieced from there. I realized about halfway…