lately I’ve had SO many no-reply bloggers comment and often I recognize the names…… so something CHANGED over the last few weeks. Thanks to Tonya she found a FIX and linked to here http://www.venustrappedinmars.com/2013/06/google-ultimate-no-reply-blogger.html If you have commented and haven’t heard back from me within a day, you’re a NO reply blogger! fix it!! – …
I was going to say that sometimes I can be SUCH a blonde, but I might get flack for that, well I AM a blonde…..or was… now my hair is more like the color of what the cat leaves behind a rock (my mom always says that) anyways…… I decided to quilt my “ugly” spring …
This week I quilted the Riley Blake Kaleidoscope baby quilt. Also, because Tonya at Ozark fabrics is having a competition or a challenge about making SOMETHING with the fabrics she sells, to prove that we are just not all fabric HOARDERS!! I knew I wanted straight lines on the kaleidoscope blocks and in matching blue …
I have another quilt published in McCall’s Quilting magazine! It’s called Baja Sunset (I named it Genesis 9:16) Here’s a link to McCall’s showing other quilts in this issue as well And here’s MINE!! Of course I designed this quilt in EQ7!! McCall’s is listing the directions for some of the blocks as foundation pieced. …
I finished the BOW for this week : ESTHER, this block was a tricky persian star. The original block suggested to applique the triangle sections. I then got the idea to treat it like a kaleidoscope and it worked pretty well. My blocks are 8” where the original is 6” so the middle square would …
It’s finally time to start. Yay! We’ll be working on 2 blocks each month and I’ll start with the EASY ones. Today we’ll be working on a rail fence block And a nine patch within a nine patch Both of these will have strip piecing which is easy and fast and often used in piecing …
Pineapple Quilt top is DONE!! I had a friend and my husband both VOTE for adding the fancy border. (Thanks bloggers!- you were NO help at all, those of you who commented said I could do either way depending on how I felt, ha! no help at all) teasing! I’m SEW happy with how it …
I finished the baby girl top with Riley Blake fabrics I did 4 FPP blocks here’s a close up of the quilt top I had enough of the main fabric to use for backing and I’m using the darker blue for binding too I finished a customer’s farm quilt yesterday She wanted meandering all over …
I got Sonja in her new red dress. I used this pattern Now the pattern is from 3m and up to 8yr, Sonja is 9m so I made a size 12m and shortened the straps, they fit her perfectly now, so I don’t know if I should lengthen them a bit or leave them ( …
Have you ever played with the EQ Layout Library? I just recently “found” it It’s under Libraries and Layout Library Then you’ll see LOTS of fun layouts I chose this STARS1 one under Blocks by style and STARS then added to sketchbook Under Irregular grids, I chose #7, add to sketchbook too “Do you EQ’s …