In case you haven’t seen it, I did a blog post for Accuquilt recently where I made a fabric wrapped coiled basket and used the 1 1/2” strip die and fabric scraps, which made it SUPER fast and easy! I show step by step how to make it, first with the 1 1/2” strip die …
remember I bought this pattern at a quilt show last month? When I posted it here on my blog, Vicki –a fellow blogger and island batik ambassador said she had it too and was going to use it for the QAYG themed project for this month (as her 2nd project) so we kind of had …
The theme for this month with the Island Batik ambassadors is “winter Wonderland” I looked in my box and being inspired by another ambassador, I decided to use these left over winter strips too. Then I got the idea for coiled baskets using cotton cording. I started cutting the strips in half (It looked like …
So last week, my friend Laura asked me to show her how to crochet. I haven’t crocheted in years and couldn’t find my pouch of hooks (sigh!) But I did find my patterns and this one is one of my favorites! and you know how it goes, once someone else wants to do something, you …
I was talking to someone about leftover binding strips last week (was it Joan at Moosestashquilting?) anyways, I got the idea to use the strips to make a coiled basket and wondered if it would work or be too thick? Finally I got my helper to do the important job of sorting the colors- I …
I finished this bowtie quilt and HAD to show it now instead of the 15th for the GO! challenge It’s all quilted and bound. On the large black sections I drew a line every 2” which matches up with the bow tie blocks on the alternating blocks, then created a grid work and quilted curves …
I’ve been busy making the women of the bible quilt top! I decided to embroider the names below in the sashing… As I was sorting them and getting ready for names I realized I had one person twice – the 2nd block was an alternate block and then the last block in the series was …
Making the women of the bible top and embroidery Read More »
I finished another persian star block, so I think I have 3 or 4 left now, only 2 weeks (well a bit more since I’m the hostess) Meanwhile Sonja got BIG yellow bear from her brother. sniff sniff, he’s too big for bear now… He also gave her his other yellow bear which was his …
I’m still here just working slower, lots of stuff going on, I can’t show yet, but here’s a few pics I made another fabric bowl/ basket my son picked red white and blue as the colors. Plus he’s been very creative lately too. We got introduced to a tile board game called carcacone or something …
Recently I found this roll of cotton cording and I figured I hadn’t made a fabric wrapped bowl/ basket in a while. So I looked at my fabric baskets Reds or blues? The Red one is also pink and purple I think, so I picked BLUE! I decided to make it BIG I stopped here …