You can tell it’s vacation time when I don’t blog post every day! Of course I can’t avoid a little quilting or hand sewing 🙂 I finally finished this customer quilt. yay!! it was a monster 🙂 95 x 105″ could hardly fit on my frame, but I managed:-) I quilted an all over funky …
It’s 6 months until Christmas!! are you ready??? LOL here my kids are sitting in their bathing suits from when they were in the pool. and it’s going to be 99 or hotter friday and saturday, NOT looking forward to that- being 7months pregnant. way too early to think about Christmas. I haven’t even thought …
Yesterday, I went with two friends to the quilt and sewing expo in raleigh. I had picked friday, because I heard and read that one of the editors of mcCall’s but the Editor in Chief would be there and do a trunk show. So I joined two friends and we drove to Raleigh. we got …
This post is just a mix of different things 🙂 yesterday I finished a fabric ball for my daughter here it is in all purple batiks! then I was looking at my shelf with patterns and I found this one. I bought this last fall for I think around $25 for just ONE pattern! but …
another fabric ball, Lorax and a peek at customer’s quilt Read More »
Our Pin cushion swap is starting today! click the picture OR click my Pin cushion swap button at the top of the page So there’s 8 of us and each month we make a pin cushion and send it to someone else on our list, the last one will be in january 2013! Let the …
Last week I showed you that I won a bundle of 5 batik FQs they are just lovely! so of course I am starting to think of a project! Last fall I made a tutorial for this circle in a star quilt top, using 20 (actually 21 FQs) here here’s the 21st block- on the …
I’m sure many of you have done english paper piecing and maybe have made a ball like this! this one is for my son. First you get 12 pentagon cardstock shapes, I got mine from paperpieces.com for this fabric ball I chose 6 different fabrics- or rather my son did 🙂 I then laid out …
Yesterday I was looking at my roll of cotton cording and decided to use the batik scraps I had from my “berry square” quilt, to make a bali basket. I guess I had more scraps than I thought, because I didn’t use the 4th pinkish color, I had about 1/2yd of that so it would …
Yesterday I think I beat my record! I had a friend come over and showed her how to long arm quilt, told her to get some yardage to just practice on before we started a baby quilt for her. So she practiced first. then we loaded her baby quilt and I ended up quilting it …
I HAVE been quilting! just very slowly! The kids had their last day of school last friday, so we’re all trying to get used to the new schedule. It’s taken me 3 days to quilt the wonky house quilt, because I try to pick a time when the kids are playing or watching TV, but …