When I first saw another blog that Bonnie Hunter released the fabric choices for her mystery this year, I quickly went to look at the color choices here. Allietare!! I still don’t know if I’ll do it, but I will definitely download each step and maybe do a smaller version- whenever I get around to …
YAY!! Last night I finished the binding on the Bonnie Hunter ORCA Bay from a year ago It was in my UFO pile for so long because I didn’t like that I had substituted the colors from the original. I LOVE the original colors. Now that it’s done, it’s nice, it’s a LOOK for sure, …
ORCA Bay is no longer a UFO in outer space or on my shelf Read More »
I finally finished the ORCA bay top, well without the top…. I just needed this thing DONE! I’m still not loving it, I love Bonnie’s sketches and LOVE the final quilt, but I should have stuck with her color choices and not changed it around, mine are too close in tone. lesson learned! Now that …
ORCA top is done and fabrics for 3 dresses or maybe 4 Read More »
I was busy last night! the kids wanted to stay awake until midnight and I told them we’d watch the ball drop in New york on TV. So while we WAITED I sewed 🙂 I told you yesterday I recv’d a package from connecting threads and washed all the fabrics, so of course I had …
I was so excited yesterday morning when I saw Bonnie has posted clue #6 a day early… So I quickly got to work on these Ohio stars since I swapped the colors around and I’m using blue instead of black and pink instead of red I’m not totally loving the light blues in the blocks, …
first let me show you the ORCA #5 progress I Finished the blocks, yay! (still not sure about the light and dark blues, but oh well!) all 350 of them! 🙂 they didn’t take THAT long to finish, it was fun! Over the weekend I got anothe order for an owl, so here’s the start …
So many little things to show! First: the MUG rugs are DONE 🙂 they turned out really cute, though I had to EXPLAIN to my husband what it was and that you can put a MUG/cup on it and a snack etc on the side… I told you I would make another owl and portfolio …
mug rugs, owl and portfolio and cookies are done and EQ ideas, orca progress Read More »
I have a few fun little projects we’ve been making around here I started Orca #4, these are NEAT! Here’s a picture of goodies from my best friend in DK (where I sent them the thanksgiving stuff) There’s MARCIPAN and nougat, Haribo licorice, PEPPER NUTS ( kind of like ginger snaps but not so giner-y) …
I have been playing catch up on the ORCA blocks AND long arm quilted one customer’s quilt that was dropped off monday. Here’s a pile of ORCA blue #2 blocks, it was FUN to do the string piecing, I pieced 6 and then fed another start in the machine, then cut off the 6, ironed, …
quilting customer’s UNC quilt and more ORCA pieces Read More »
for Last night I was able to get some sewing done! YAY I also loaded a customer’s quilt on the frame so that’s ready for me to long arm quilt later today. So last night I figured I’d start on the ORCA #2 part. I’ve never done string piecing before, so this was NEW to …