November’s theme for Island Batik ambassadors is TOOL TIME! no…. not Tim the tool-man Taylor! but a quilting tool!! I wrecked my brain and also asked about what is a considered a tool. My favorite “tool” is really the GO! cutter and all the dies and we have recently highlighted Accuquilt, but I can’t help …
I recently quilted a quilt for our friends Barry and Ella who goes to our church (they are like grandparents to our kids) This is Barry’s quilt, he meant to give it to me to quilt at Thanksgiving, but we forgot, so I got it one Sunday at church instead. He was kind of specific …
My last order with Connecting threads included this neat white floral, I bought 3 yds I think and my idea was either to make a shirt for me or a dress for the girls, then once I got the fabric I thought- I don’t like wearing white shirts as you can often see thru it …
I was looking at my neglected Sunbonnet Sue blocks from the RSC16 and I had to do some digging to find the colors and alternate colors, but then I saw why I had stopped, some of the secondary colors didn’t make sense to me and some were the same, so I focused on the primary …
These pineapple blocks are finally done! I did do other blocks in between, so that helped. Here I’m done trimming them- not with scissors but rotary cut All lined up and pretty! I’m still tearing out papers- almost done though Here’s another Women of the bible BOW #30 ATHALIAH AND JEHOSHEBA- never heard of them …
This post is all over the place (more about the title later) I finished another ahhhh #19 And I got this package in the mail, I WON this from a blog hop from Kristen! Thanks!! The T shirt quilt is done too- just missing a label, here’s a sneak peek I finished quilting #2 quilt …
Remember I mentioned earlier about some spring blocks I had from a swap Here’s a sketch from EQ7 I decided to use The middle border uses 2 1/2” wide strips Perfect for binding strip scraps!! which is overflowing BTW So I picked out the most SPRING ones I Ha! can’t even tell!! hmmm (I do …
Yesterday I was looking at my 2013 progress list and looking at my shelf of completed tops and UFO boxes I decided to get out these flying geese in a ring blocks, from a swap last year. A swap that was beyond frustrating, but oh well… it’s over now. I first got 5 blocks back- …
You all know I’m having a BLAST with my new embroidery machine! And EQStitch!! so I created this in EQStitch- the binkie was already there and I changed it into applique. I embroidered it! The directions below are for a bib I made after this Binkie one as I changed a few things on the …
I’m about to go to bed soon, but I just couldn’t wait to show you and I know some of you were anxious for me too!!:-) TADA!!! Here it IS…. Brother PR620! (used but new to me) Pictures don’t do it justice, this thing is HUGE! Here’s my first TEST- a small flower! My own …