I didn’t post yesterday, so I figured I’d post today! Yesterday I finished the top for the 4 seasons quilt, I’ve been toying with the idea of doing applique on the border, spring summer fall winter etc, but I think I’ll leave it blank, what do you think? while I was sewing I ate the …
tree quilt top, goodies and nativity panel for customer Read More »
I’ve been wanting to do a book/pattern review for a long time. so I’ve picked my top 3 things I’ll show them in the order I’ve aquired these number 1: Yellow Brick road. My all time favorite and most used pattern, it’s super easy and great for beginners. I taught this class at the local …
I FINALLY finished appliqueing the lotus flower quilt, it took a long time! I did figure out a trick though, if I twisted and turned the quilt top clockwise before I started and started with the most bunch-y ness by the machine, as I was going, it would un-bunch more and more as I turned …
Last night I decided to work on the four seasons tree blocks here’s the pieces all cut out laying out the pieces, the only one I wasn’t sure about was the summer one, but I kept it here’s the blocks sewn together playing with a different layout, I don’t like it, looks like the swaztika, …
I’ve been playing catch up today Ketchup/catsup (why is catsup a corect spelling?? it still looks way odd to me) My daughter’s class actually has a little basket that has a picture of a ketchup bottle and they add work in there they didn’t finish and friday, they take it home to finish if they …
Yesterday I started cutting out the lotus flowers for the lotus quilt top I made a while ago, and cut bias strips for the stems I used heat n bond and ironed to the back of the fabrics and then cut out on the drawn lines. when I was about to iron down the …
I’m part of this mini quilt sign swap, and I can only show part of it, hope I don’t spoil it… I’ll show more details later after it’s mailed off. this is the label for the back, again I cut off part of the top…. Shhh! I also started and finished quilting the gingham dog …
I just finished another customer quilt I actually quilted it sideways too Each block was a BOM from Bernina thru a local store. feathers on the border and the border triangles Now this is my thread basket, it’s more like a nest now 🙂 I also today was featured on this NC arts site 
since I made a fabric ball for my son, my daughter wanted one too. I re-traced the template from the patchwork ball book and they were now smaller, then I made cardstock templates instead of the plastic I had before, I also figured out that I could fit 2 on a charm square, so I …
another fabric Ball and feathers on customer’s quilt Read More »
I recently borrow this book from the library puzzle balls I remember making pentagon balls when I was a teenager and couldn’t remember how I did the cardboard/ templates inside, so anyways I tried this and sewed the fabric over the edge and sewed them all together. These were leftover fabrics from the NEXT design …