If you are looking for a quilt-along where you can see what the finished product will look like, and traditional foundation piecing is your preference but you like modern quilts…if you are looking for one that uses up a lot of scraps and moves at an easy pace so you’ll have plenty of time to…
Category: Miscellaneous
Block 11 – machine quilting party
It has been a craaaazy busy week. I am way behind on blogging and I’m not even going to try to fit everything in. We had a birthday in the family and so I started a new tradition – making a birthday pillowcase. I’m thinking I might just make one of these for each of…
Block 72 – Full Circle Star
So….those points are all exactly the same size. What you can’t see in this photo is how many times I pulled out stitches and sewed it again. And again. And again. Folks, this is the best I had on this one! The original pattern called for small circles appliqued on there, but what can I…
Block 68 – Wild Roses
I have some good news, and I have some bad news. The good news is this block. I am enjoying the appliqued blocks more and more as I go along, and Pat as usual has done a great job creating a unique block that is probably going to look good whether you’ve been sewing a…
Block #60 – Hearts and Flowers
I actually – finally – finished this 2 days ago but wasn’t online long enough to write about it. I started to put French knots in the center of the small flowers but decided I liked the satin stitch better for that small area so I switched for the remainder. I counted the number of…
Block 62 – Hen and Chicks
Ay yi yi! That seemingly innocent 1″ strip in this 6″ block really threw me for a loop today. I am embarrassed to think how much time this block took me when it didn’t need to. Have you ever had to re-work something 2, 3, or more times because you were either trying to take…
I think I’ve had the same goal for 3 or 4 days now. Finish block 60 of the Splendid Sampler, and finish the 3rd row of the purple star quilt. I finally got one of those completed yesterday – yay! The picture of this is actually rotated which hopefully explains why the left side –…
Professional grade snipper
I wanted to catch up on Splendid Sampler blocks since we were coming up on block # 60. And then I saw that particular one was embroidery. I knew it was a losing battle to get that done before Sunday’s block came out. I’m making headway on it but it will be another day or…
Block #56 – At Home Anywhere
I was determined to to catch up on the Splendid Sampler blocks, because #60 comes out this Thursday and I want to end the week with a nice even row. I went to grab the template I had printed out a week ago and thought “hey, that’s a blog post!”. Do you see in the…
Block 9 – machine quilting party
Hmmm….hmmmm….. Do you have a particular phrase you say when you’re trying to not say something because what you’re thinking of a situation may or may not come to pass? I say hmmm….. I said hmmmm…. yesterday when I was working on this block but I’m going to hold off on the thoughts behind that…
Block 58 – Homeward Bound
First things first. I saw that our LQS had posted a photo of the flamingo fabric and immediately started thinking “what can I make out of that?”. Why, more pillowcases of course! A friend of mine has also been making pillowcases lately and she texted me a picture of one she had done that had…
2 quick pillowcases
It’s almost 10 at night and I’ve just finished the binding on the Christmas quilt. I just threw it in the washing machine so it will be tomorrow before I have a picture of it. I attempted to work on a bench pillow from Kimberbell today. It was minutes into it when I realized I…