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…
I have my own mini version of “finish it up Friday” going on at the house today. I’m very close to completing the quilting on the stained glass quilt. My goal before the end of the weekend is to at least get that done, and if I were to get the binding on it, that…
Block 34 – Lemonade Block
If you are working Splendid Sampler blocks and are about to start block 34, do yourself a favor and get out a disappearing glue stick. I think you’ll thank me in the end. Then while you’re at it, if you have a governor on your foot pedal set it to the slowest speed and the…
lunch hour progress
Before I do anything else, I have to brag on my dear friend, Lisa. She brought me the nicest present last night! It’s a zippered pouch that uses the fabric and leaves from the Bloom block, and the Dresden is from the Splendid Sampler block that we did not too long ago. Isn’t that pretty…
hundreds of hours
I realized today – the hard way – that the connectors also have 24 pieces each, which is the same as each block. And with 2 sashes that equal 20 pieces, they almost take as much time. Yep, time to work on some of this! I decided to do some math. 56 blocks – 24…
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…
Block 33 – Selvage Saver
Boy howdy am I ever behind in blogging! I’ve had family and friends in town for the past several days as we’ve had a couple of big celebrations going on. I’ll catch up tomorrow, but a quick run-down is I was able to give the King quilt away for a birthday present this weekend. And…
Block 32 – The Constant Needle
Wow am I ever running in 20 different directions this week! I’m taking a quick break to post a few pictures and then I’ll be off running again. Here’s the Bloom quilt with all 20 blocks sewn together. I also sewed the top, left, and right sashing but didn’t get a picture of it yet….
Block 31 – Blossoming
It took me part of Saturday evening, Sunday, Monday, and early Tuesday morning – but I hand stitched everything on the block designed by Jenny Reynolds! I saw she had stitched 3 variations of it, which made me feel comfortable with switching up the skeins used to adapt it to the colors in my sampler. I…
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…