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 semaine deux

I had a vacation day scheduled for yesterday so I got a few things done around the house but mostly got some sewing done. The second clue for the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt was released; it’s one set of blocks per week and most years she has about 6-8 weeks.  This week called for 100…

Block 50 – Flights of Fancy

Halfway done!  I was afraid we might celebrate with the hardest block yet, but that paper pieced dress still holds that distinction.  I pieced this one per the directions to see if I’m at better now with those 1″ pieces than I was when I started.  The jury is still out. The first thing I…

Block 41 – Sew South

Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater.  Well, kind of.  I glue basted a bunch of hexies a few months ago and decided to make a Patchwork of the Crosses quilt instead. I can’t explain why, but the regular hexagons just  don’t have that “wow” factor to me. I knew I wasn’t probably ever going to do anything…

Block 36 – Inchy Hexagon Club

I hope this post finds you well!  I’ve been offline for the past few days.  It started off with a medical emergency for a family member – but if there’s a bright spot in that story, it’s that I had time to take my bag of stuff to work on patchwork of the crosses while…

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…

TX quilt shows

I came across this today for any Texans (or anyone who’s up for a road trip) who are interested in upcoming quilt shows across the state the rest of this year – http://www.quiltersresources.net/quiltshows_tx.html . I also finished cutting out the other pieces for a POTC block.  I bought a fat quarter of another fabric that has this…

Block 14 – Flying High

Many thanks go out to Janet Clare for a timely block for Thursday’s Splendid Sampler, as I will be flying out of state this morning for a long weekend. I didn’t want to stretch the fabric since it’s so tiny, so I glue basted the little birds on before I finished it.  The son and his friend were asking last…

Easy hexies

I came up with a (in my mind – haha!) brilliant idea for Sulky to make.  Wash away stabilizers that are pre-cut in various sizes of hexies.  Picture this… You would be able to buy a package of  their stabilizer that washes out, but the key thing is that the iron on stabilizer would be a page…