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…
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 70 – Bows
The pattern for this block calls for 17 pieces for each quadrant. Or rather, 68 pieces for the entire 6″ block. Some of the pieces in here are 1/2 of 1 square inch! I combined the center block with 2 of the triangles so I did cut out a few of the tiny ones. Unfortunately,…
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…
mattress vs drop size
Oops. That’s all I have. Just “oops”. I’m making 2 quilts for the boys based on a double bed. One boy has a twin but I wanted them to be the same size so I’m making them both for the double bed. I went to QuiltMaker’s site for suggested sizes and failed to notice –…
why I love Accuquilt
We’re in the last 3 months of the year and that means any quilts I might make for Christmas presents needs to be started. I can work under a tight deadline, but I prefer not to. I had a request to make one of my nephews a quilt but what my family didn’t know was…
Purple star – finished!
And another one is finished, except for of course the threads but then again I always put that off for a rainy day. I had it all done but the binding I think by this weekend. I originally had more of a blue/purple for the actual purple part of this quilt but this is for…
Block #65- Stripe and Flowers
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Not really; I just always think of that musical any time I say “a funny thing happened….”. My parents started taking me to the theatre at the university near where I grew up when I was probably in grade school; does anyone else have quirky…
Splendid Sampler re-do
I haven’t edited any blocks that I recall once they were pinned to the design board but I couldn’t let this one pass. The block is perfectly symmetrical – or at least it’s supposed to be. I know how this happened and it’s called trying to do 2 things at once. My husband had just…
Block 67 – Bobbin Chase
I’m sewing these Splendid Sampler blocks out of order again. I was actually going to complete Thursday’s first until I saw that today’s block was paper pieced. I used regular copy paper to print out the pattern for the star quilt. Someone suggested to me a couple of weeks ago to try newspaper print –…
finally on to the binding~
I knew the schedule at work was about to ratchet up and boy did it. I was lucky if I had 30-60 minutes after work each day to spend on this quilt. A lunch break was a distant memory. It will be like that for the next 3-4 weeks but it should calm down again…