I finally finished the ORCA bay top, well without the top…. I just needed this thing DONE! I’m still not loving it, I love Bonnie’s sketches and LOVE the final quilt, but I should have stuck with her color choices and not changed it around, mine are too close in tone. lesson learned! Now that …
ORCA top is done and fabrics for 3 dresses or maybe 4 Read More »
I HAVE to show you these “headers” first As you know I got picked/ approved to make 2 quilts for McCalls magazine and then I started looking for fabrics and after a while timeless treasures was so nice to send me these “headers” to look at first I had no clue what “headers” were these …
making a few KITS for my quilt guild and HEADERS!? Read More »
Last night I fell asleep at 8pm…. so of course I woke up 8hrs later at 4AM!! I figured I would go upstairs and sew. this is what I made based on this EQ file, then I realized I had cut out the squares in black for the snowball blocks so more like this one …
Last night I was in a “funk” about quilting… I know! imagine that??? I was… I think it’s bugging me that I’m missing this white fabric for a Dr seuss quilt I want to make, and fabric.com will send it later ARGH… I wanted to start something NEW and not just continue one of my …
Yesterday in the mail I got 2 more wonky house blocks! aren’t they cute? and look at the bird! sooo cute. The “maker” of the block wrote that I could rip out the bird if I didn’t like it…. oh no!! my daughter even squealed at the cute bird when she saw it : aww …
wonky house blocks, blue runner and some little tea bag holders Read More »
I’m all caught up on customer quilts! ( I needed to finish this one because another customer is dropping off a quilt tomorrow) This was a “tricky” quilt, it was made from signature blocks and then I had to quilt words around on the sashing. I drew them first with a chalk pencil or frixion …
I’ve had a busy week with things OTHER than quilting….. boo hoo! 🙂 Monday I had a dentist appt. which got rescheduled because they didn’t get authorization because I’m pregnant- I didn’t know to tell them before hand. Tuesday, hmm now I can’t remember what I did. Wednesday- field trip chaperone with my daughter’s class …
I’m SOOOOO excited…. I got an email from McCalls’s this morning that they want to publish two of my quilt patterns/ideas… can’t wait to get started on them. This is the first time I’ve ever done this, I’m so excited, can you tell!? can’t tell you MUCH about them though.
The other day I downloaded a color wheel pic and started playing with it I just LOVE colors (as you know) I’ve never seen this complicated of a color wheel, but I liked it 🙂 so I started playing in EQ. Here I did a “split complimentary” layout Split complimentary is where you pick a …
Having a 45 min drive to church is good for me, I get to see and work on the binding on quilts. So I finished a few already I finished the bunny table runner, a kit from CT, but I changed the border a little, I believe it had a ton of different colors and …