Today I woke up and there was NO power in the house… My husband drove the kids to school and I found out that it wouldn’t be back on until 11.30, well that got pushed out further and didn’t come on until 1pm. But I did do some more applique! I finished the BIRD, then …
Yesterday in the mail I got some goodies from Kaufman. – fabric samples- as I’m about to make two more quilts for McCall’s they sent me these to pick from. DROOL!!! Now I wanted to make one quilt in Kona solids in 12 colors of the rainbow. WHO can pick just 12 from 243 Kona …
I made the it to the local “chatham news” paper. I asked the editor if I could copy the text and he gave me a word doc. here it is: Local quilter published in national magazine By Bill Willcox A local quilter recently had one of her creations published in a national magazine. Bea …
The end of last week and saturday I finished quilting two customer quilts This one I think was made out of jelly rolls! love the design. I “just” meandered all over it with “mother goose” thread color. Then I quilted this fast and easy baby quilt, a customer mailed me this quilt. I quilted loopy …
Customer quilt and Bible BOW and fabric purchases Read More »
Thanks to SewCalGal for having this fall EQ blog hop! Here’s a little tutorial for Electric Quilt users. I used EQ7. Now with the FALL theme in mind, I searched for a block names LEAF and found this one below. lots of LEAF blocks come up, not much under LEAVES or FALL. I don’t really …
Do you know that I’m part of a FALL EQ blog hop, hosted by sewcalgal, starting monday!? so I’ve been busy doing that, or trying! it’s hard to work in EQ when you are holding a baby 🙂 as I often click and hold down ctrl or alt button, can’t do that one-handed. it’s also hard …
I finished quilting this cool customer quilt. I love the design!! I quilted it in a large swirl with points using a pink thread. On to #2 for her soon! Yesterday I finished sewing the left over triangles from the red white and blue blocks into HSTs. I used them as a leader and enders …
Red white and blue top done and dilemma w leaders and enders Read More »
I know you want to see another baby pic 🙂 Here’s Solveig holding Sonja. Saturday I decided to clean my sewing machine since I couldn’t remember the last time I did it. well LOOK at all that lint! Here’s my “tool” for that, an old stiff paint brush, it’s great for grabbing the lint. that’s how much …
It’s been a few days since I posted so I figured I’d post a little here. I’ve been busy taking care of a certain little one. Here I had put her in her crib- she did NOT like it…. boohoo I’ve also worked on the outer border for McCall’s #3 quilt, this is all I …
This is nothing new, but I figured I’d show step by step a good way I found to make nursing pads 🙂 TMI??? lol I used scraps for all of this. I cut out 4 circles of fabric and 4 of cotton batting, using the Go! 5″ circle. Charm squares work great! Then I folded …