I’m part of a local quilt guild and once a month they have a BOM, in january I made my block and brought it in, then I also WON all the blocks back. awesome!! plus a few scraps of the gold fabric, I brought them home and looked in EQ for idea on how to …
finally I can show my little projects I’ve been working on. gifts for my kids teachers, they got them yesterday at both classroom parties. the owls were from a fons and porter quilt magazine from december 2010 I think, the portfolios I got the pattern as part of a kit from connecting threads, and the …
I finished another quilt, my neighborhood has a monthly crafty/quilt meeting so I often save up quilts with binding to be hand sewn on while we talk, anyways, I finished more than half of the binding yesterday and the rest last night while watching TV. the pattern is another one block wonder, a while ago …
Finally I finidhed appliqueing 30 blocks with circles, I used the large circle die from my accuquilt set and punched out the circles in ricky tims stable stuff and then needle turn appliqued them onto these blocks. now is it a big NO NO to put a modern print on top of batiks?? I like …
I know I’ve been quiet for a while but I HAVE been busy quilting 🙂 just some are Shhh ! so don’t tell, I will have to wait a few more days to show what THAT is. meanwhile, I worked on a bargello quilt, I’ve made this one pattern from “TWIST on bargello” many times, …
A friend of mine wanted me to make a city scape art quilt, I haven’t really done any art quilts, so I looked online for a pattern and found one and ordered it, my friend wanted a nice size wall hanging. anyways the pattern came and the size was 7″ or so and very vague …
I just couldn’t send Gwen off to Kenya with bringing some quilts with her! I had several tops made that were missing backings or maybe borders, so within 2 weeks I whipped these 5 together and added binding and label. This one is a pattern I found online about taking a jelly roll ( I …
Today is our dear friend Gwen’s birthday! She’s from singapore but studies at UNC we met her thru a church function and have since then become friends, and she loves our kids and sometimes spends the weekend with us if her dorm is closed etc. Last weekend she was here because school was done and …
I just found out that I’m listed on McCall’s next design star competition please vote for me, hopefully this link works if not click on this http://www.mccallsquilting.com/contests/design-star-contest.html I’m the 2nd one on the list with the bright batik nine patch quilt with a large flower
I knew I had forgotten one. I FINALLY finished this french braid, it’s probably take 2 yrs to finish, I just hated adding those braids to the strips, then I started working on it as leaders and enders and it came together rather quickly, my MIL saw it a few weeks ago and loved the …