Honestly, I didn’t think I could get 4 quilts finished between mid October and before Christmas. Okay, so one was well on its way and by the first week of December it was with its new owner. But that still left a large lap sized quilt and 2 large wall hangings – 3 feet by…
Category: quilts for family
sampler quilt finished
And that’s a wrap – other than clipping a few threads. I started this one sometime last year; it’s a sampler based off of several different quilts in Amy Ellis’ “Modern Heritage” book. She had a suggested layout and I followed it for the most part although I added in quite a bit of negative…
post-Christmas update
Our quilt guild typically has a featured speaker at each monthly meeting and then the following day is a workshop where either a specific technique is taught, or perhaps we start or even finish a…
Feathers – complete!
Another crazy week in our house. We found a crack in the shower in our bathroom and the short answer is that the best thing to do is to replace it. We didn’t even get one with all the bells and whistles but home improvement is never cheap. It will be 8-10 weeks before they’re…
feathers everywhere
I should start off with a non-quilted story. We changed insurance a few weeks ago and – wow! That was not a seamless transition. With exactly 0 days of medication left for our son, I got the call this morning that everything was set up. I made phone calls to the doctor and the pharmacy,…
sneak peak
I like to road test the quilt top before quilting, just to make sure that it is the size I think it’s going to end up. Thank goodness this one fits on the queen bed in our daughter’s bedroom. I loaded the quilt bottom and batting before I ran out of time for the day. …
Labyrinth top
I finally trimmed the rest of the threads on The Splendid Sampler – or at least as many as I’m going to trim – haha! I learned something obvious about quilting from this that probably sounds dumb to anyone who’s been quilting for a while. I’ve always pulled the threads up from the bottom…when I…
birthday quilt
My niece, who’s turning 30 in 2 months, asked me back at Christmas time if I would make her a purple quilt for her birthday. I’m just about “purpled out” after making 4 quilts in the past 12-15 months where that’s a prominent color, but I was flattered that she asked so I’m making it. …
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…
En Provence – finished!
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. No rhetoric, just a quilt. I put the pedal to the metal on the back end of this quilt and it’s finished, other than trimming threads. Oh who am I kidding? That will take me another week! I was quilting at some crazy non-quilting hours of the day…
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,…
Christmas stocking
I bought a panel the other day that included the front and back of a Christmas stock as well as several gift card rectangles. I’m not sure I’ll end up quilting the gift cards and use them. However, as we are working through a different Christmas get-together than we’ve ever had I asked my sister…