When this month’s theme was announced, I knew what I would do- take the word “pillow” lightly… You know me, what else is a pillow but SMALLER?? PINCUSHIONS! I make lots of pincushions!! So here’s the first two for this month’s theme! I already showed the hummingbird one as it was for my pincushion swap …
Before my 2nd trip to Denmark, I was reminded of the blog hop and I had completely forgotten about it, or thought I had plenty of time, so thanks for the reminder Carol!! and thanks for hosting this blog hop The theme is HEARTS I’ve done heart projects before, but wanted to do something NEW …
Have you seen this zippered pouch I made for Accuquilt’s blog recently? Here’s what I used to make it. 1 FQ scrap of white 1 matching zipper with plastic teeth (it was longer than 8″ and I trimmed it later) scraps of batting the 4 1/2″ strip die and the 2″, 3″ and 4″ …
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 …
I started this One Block Wonder quilt in November and finally got around to quilting it! I just did a quick meandering in white and machine stitched down the binding and since I got my embroidery machine back, I also installed EQ stitch on my new laptop and found this butterfly in EQ stitch (modified …
The 12 Days of Christmas quilt is DONE!! I had it quilted for a while but didn’t do the binding until recently. I long arm quilted it with a Christmas variegated thread (I actually don’t care for this one but it fits with the quilt!!) I quilted holly and berries on the border, curves on …
Last Friday, as you know I became an American citizen and I was pretty much bawling by the time I got there! My whole family was there, then a friend Danielle and her daughter was there and an elderly couple from church (who pretty much wants to be grandparents to our kids, they are so …
I’m scheduling this post ahead of time as I’m celebrating today of becoming an American citizen! (I’ll post about that later) my town, Pittsboro NC has a yearly fall craft fair called the Pittsboro street fair and I’ve never attending it as a vendor, then heard about it again some weeks ago but figured it …
As you may have seen before, I made these sunbonnet sue blocks last year for the rainbow QAL, it was fun! I got the die for sunbonnet Sue from Accuquilt and also the embroidery set for it. (Marjorie’s) I played around in EQ with different ideas, plain borders a scrappy sashing with solid border? or …
I made this cute snowflake pincushion recently for Accuquilt’s blog here I show step by step how I cut the snowflake out of felt with the Holiday medley die and the 6” QUBE set and companion sets (which is on SALE btw!) I did machine embroidery to stitch down the snowflake, but you can button …