A lady at church walked up to me last Sunday and gave me a belated birthday gift and I didn’t open it until I got home. It was a pincushion!! – she knows me well Can’t figure out how she managed to do this braid, I see tiny hidden stitches, but that takes quite some …
Yesterday I got a squishy package in the mail. This pincushion is from Janne from Norway! Thanks Janne- love it I’ve also been working on my EPP mermaid top, slow and steady, though not as fast as Turid in Norway, but I don’t have a date in mind on when I need to finish it, …
Lots of goodies for me in the mail lately (apart from all the amazon stuff I got for the kids and use a free month of Prime!) First I got this Bee pincushion from Tanja (dec) I love bees Then I got this from Monica for Nov a neat dressmaker! with a fimo clay needle …
As a leader and ender for a while I worked on scraps of half heagons and made this mini quilt. It’s about 20” x19” I think meanwhile I’ve finished more hexagon flowers with the connecting threads mermaid fabrics Also since our friends left, they left behind some “oops” pieces from their business for the kids …
In preparation of a long night in front of the TV on election night, I prepped these hexagons. I cut them out with my GO 1” hexagon die And this is how many I finished at the end of the night (early morning) I went to bed at 1.30am The hexagons are from a layer …
Yeehaw! my 2nd secret quilt for Accuquilt is revealed. It’s called Swan square dance. and it’s a free pattern on accuquilt’s site here it uses the 8” qube and companion set Here’s the only picture I revealed as I was working on it using Kinderfolk by connecting threads here’s the finished top and the finished …
I’m sure you may have seen my Graceful Flower’s quilt blog post and pattern on accuquilt! I’m going to show you how I ended up coming up with this idea for Accuquilt. Since I have the 8” QUBE set, I of course made the quilt layout 8” blocks and a 5 x 7 layout The …
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I have a quilt in this upcoming issue of Quiltmaker Nov/Dec 2016 It’s named Cotton Candy I had named it Colorful birds but I’m not good with names It’s made using the flying geese die from accuquilt, the one that comes with the GO BIG! and then cotton mottled mirage fabrics from connecting threads. It …
Recently I came across this article online, where it talks about quilt store fabrics vs other fabrics. It then made me think of “other” stores, my favorite fabric store online is Connecting threads. And I’ve run into a lot of quilters over time who kind of look down on connecting threads because it’s “cheap”. Their …
I have caught up on the Road Home Along Row along and I’m doing DENMARK!! Now that I’ve seen the list of participants I might wait and do some of the rows, like NC and other states we’ve lived in….?? we’ll see. I finished 3 more mini ohio star blocks, though I’m not loving the …