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 …
I finished the kitty block and turned it into a pincushion stuffed with crushed walnut shells. I used the Sea salt sandy collection from Island Batik and the kitty FPP pattern from quiltart Here I added some blue pins for the eyes My 11yr old daughter picked out fabrics for a large version so I …
I missed one triangle in a square block and found the pieces behind my sewing machine- actually Sonja did. While working on my magazine project I finished two log cabin blocks (these always take so long) AND I made a 10” PP version of the cat block for Solveig for a pillow. I just did …
I’ve been working on some different things and in between I’ve been doing more women of the bible blocks! Again I used batiks from Island Batik This one is Rahab (wall of Jericho) This one is Deborah (honey bee) This block is Jael (Anja’s middle name BTW) If you know about Jael in the bible, …
The theme for this month with Island Batik was April Showers. So I got the idea to make an embroidered block and then turn it into a pincushion. You will need EQ stitch for this!! I started off with a 4” hoop size ( really pincushions often aren’t that much bigger!) Under the stitch tab …
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I have managed to long arm quilt a customer’s 2 quilts this week. A lady at pine tree had these two tops which were given to her. I quilted feathers and swirls on this floral one. on this log cabin I did curves on the white/beige logs and feathers on the dark parts. I also …
Janeen at QuiltArtDesigns, released another mystery calendar block I downloaded it and printed the color sheet and found scraps and taped those on top of the colors to keep track of everything. at this point I was guessing some sort of flowers. In between projects I finished it up rather quickly (took me almost a …
The other day I tested out this teddy bear block to be scrappy for the rainbow QAL next year, I had scraps left over from the Be attitudes QAL and kind of sorted them into lights and darks and made this block, I’m not sure if I like it or not, it’s interesting and funky …
I finished clue #2 for the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt. Again I’m doing a Hello Kitty theme and only doing 1/4 of the blocks so here I just did 16 blocks, easy! (I was a little nervous about the red and pink HK prints touching, but now I kind of like it!) Meanwhile I’m working …
I’ve been testing a few things for Janeen at the Paper piecing 1/4” magazine here This fun block of birds in a tree! I then turned it into a pillow because I JUST happened to have a pillow shape in the right size 🙂 I did do a mistake and sewed the zipper to …