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 »
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 …
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 …
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 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 …