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 …
yesterday I started making a set of owl pot holders for our new neighbor. While I was at it, I button hole stitched around the owl pin cushion I’ve had ready for a while It’s been a while since I showed some PEANUT pics, so here’s my husband playing around with him. “rock a bye …
yesterday afternoon and this morning I’ve gotten a few more things done- quilting wise 🙂 I pulled out the black and white and red asian looking blocks and sewed them together into a 5 x 7 layout I had 36 blocks, so I have one orphan block now, sorry you didn’t make the cut! I …