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…
Category: quilts for family
Just Like Heaven
Hot off the press – I just finished the hand binding on this quilt. It’s in the washing machine and I’ll need to trim threads after it’s out but otherwise it’s ready to go in the mail to my nephew. The pattern is called Just Like Heaven from Libs Elliott. I knew when I originally…
En Provence première semaine
I might just write all my blog posts about this quilt in French. I could do it! I took 8 years of French! Actually, I’ve forgotten entirely too much; I can still read it pretty well but writing it is another matter. I almost signed up for Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt last year; I didn’t…
Star Wars fabric
Thanks for the prompting, I realized I never posted photos close enough to see the fabric I used in the 2 Star Wars quilts. It’s also obvious that I haven’t trimmed the threads yet – haha! This first one is the back to one of the quilts. My initial plan to make them slightly different…
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…
Star Wars quilt # 1 complete!
One thing I always do when I’m working on a quilt is to pin the completed rows or columns up to the wall during the interim so I can catch anything that’s “off” before I get too far down the road. How did I miss this? The sewing was completed. I quilted it from top…
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…
144 blocks done
I started singing “99 bottles of beer on the wall” as I was wrapping this one up while I counted down the last 4, then 3, then 2, and finally 1 block to sew. I’m going to wait a couple of weeks or so before quilting it but I’m happy that the quilt top is…
Block 71 – First Stitch
If I can’t confess this on my own blog, then where can I safely write about how this block came about? I used probably the most scientific way possible to pick fabrics for this block. I…used the scraps I found…on the floor! Please, someone – anyone! – tell me your sewing area is a disaster…
Block 69 – Full Circle
I think the comment on the last post – you win some and you lose some – applies to this block. I’ve sewn a few circles in my life. They’re not the easiest thing, although that paper pieced dress still wins first place for the hardest block to make. Sewing in a circle on a…
mental health day
I don’t know what other companies call it, but sometimes if I’ve had “one of those weeks”, I’ll take Friday off as a spontaneous vacation day just to clear my head. Today was a bank holiday in the U.S. – Columbus day – and the school was out so I took the day off to…