remember how I did some French braids with the QUBE set and FQs recently? I got some fabrics from connecting threads and made sashing strips for it I used my new 1 1/2” strip die from Accuquilt and cut out enough to make 5 brown and 10 black strips (each strip is 1 1/2WOF) here …
I’ve been digging thru my bins of UFOs again and I got out my rainbow hunter star blocks and realized I was missing two blocks so I made a beige one and a black one Then I put them on the design wall and decided to keep them in color order and added a turquoise …
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 …
Before Christmas I finished this mini hexagon quilt it’s made using scraps and the half hexagon Accuquilt die I quilted curves from corner to corner. I love doing this on hexagon quilts because then it looks like circles! I did a loopy design on the border and machine stitched the binding, I think this is …
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, …
I just love seeing pictures of quilts that were made using my patterns. Here’s one that was in McCall’s in Oct Nov 2013 here. it’s called Crazy for daisies. They even made the matching pillow that was a bonus pattern! It looks great. Thanks for sending it. I also got an email from someone who …
I’m in McCall’s Quilting again!! This is the March/April 2015 issue Scrappy Hexies! I also did a webinar with this quilt last summer if you want more step by step instructions/ inspiration here. I used my GO! cutter and the small hexagon die and extra large hexagon die and equilateral triangle die and added strips …
It’s about time that I blogged about Island batiks, I keep getting fabrics from them and feel so bad that I’ve had SUCH slow progress lately. Partly because some couldn’t be revealed until after MARKET and then I also started THIS!! my purple hexagon FPP quilt! Phew it’s taking a long time…. I decided I …
I can’t believe we’re in October already!! I know this post is a few days late- oh well Here’s what I completed this month (or completed quilt tops) First thing completed is this table runner, which I also turned into a pattern that I’m still working on. then the last of the kitschy BOMs and …
On Monday (Labor day) my husband added another two high hat light in my room upstairs, I had two over the sink area but it didn’t quite light up the ironing board and the 2nd spot was my design wall, I only take/took pictures during day time and if it was sunny outside. I didn’t …