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…
Category: quilts for family
modern quilt completed
This is supposed to arrive by the end of the day, so I’m crossing my fingers that it’s safe to post about this now. I was in the middle of making the wedding quilt when my sister-in-law confided to me that my niece really wanted me to make a quilt for her but was…
Hand binding
I said I wasn’t going to do any more hand binding because it takes a while. But it just looks so much better. I need to improve my machine binding skills. Ha ha!
college quilt is finished!
Yay! It’s done! Well other than washing and drying but someone else decided this exact moment was the right time to throw a load of dirty clothes into the washing machine. I think I can manage that in the next month though! Save
ready for binding!
I finally knocked out the rest of the quilting on the college quilt. I ran out of thread with one 6″ block to go but I went ahead and wound a full bobbin. Surely I’ll use navy blue thread again – which is what I have on the bottom. I thought about tracing around each…
Vanna
Playing the part of Vanna White today….the daughter asked if I could spell out her school name on the back of the quilt. I bought the 3″ alphabet letters a few months ago when they were on sale, because they are not exactly cheap but I figured I’d use them sometime. This font isn’t my…
Block 37 – Dashing by Chocolate
My apologies to anyone that says “that’s not a churn dash block!”. You’re right. My mom always had a lot of issues with her stomach and would say her stomach was churning. That word just brings back memories of my mom not feeling well so I switched the color layout but kept the pattern. This…
baste, baste, break
I’m closing in on my backlog, which is good since I have a couple of new quilts to start. We have a couple of twin day beds set up in our game room for sleepovers, guests, etc. The twin beds at college are x-long but at least I could use one of ours to estimate…
Block 35 – The Wishful Garden
I learned a couple of new paper piecing tricks yesterday! First of all, I decided to paper piece the block today. I figured that was just as easy as cutting out a template, plus it would give me an opportunity to try something that I learned yesterday. If you look at the first 3…
priorities lead to productivity
I’m going to talk about how I make quick progress but first I have to show the quilt that I finished last night. I think it was back in January when I was watching Quilt In A Day on TV when I saw this pattern. I realized I had 2 packages of Tonga Treats island…
Bloom quilt top finished!
I didn’t spend an inordinate amount of time working on the sashes for the outer edges; Lori Holt had posted that she was going to show a copy of her finished quilt so that gave me the heads up that I shouldn’t expect detailed instructions on “use this fabric on row 1, block 1”. So…
Kona Bright White
When I first started on the orange and navy blue (I know it looks black but it really is navy blue) hunters star quilt, I didn’t actually know what pattern I was going to make. So I bought 4 yards of the colors I had chosen and figured I’d see how close I came on…