The other day I just FELT like doing some foundation paper piecing!! Do you ever feel like that? And.. I wanted to use this fall charm pack from CT, so I found this simple block in EQ and printed enough to fit the charm pieces I’m going to write a pattern for it, I used …
I’ve tested another thing for Janeen at the paper piecing magazine here APPLES! She only asked for 4, but I couldn’t help but make 9 of them like this. Here’s the finished quilt top I long armed quilted lines around each apple and a leaf vine around the border. When I was working on …
When I got these lovely purple fabrics fro island batiks I wanted to use black with it and had an idea for hexagons! So I ordered a pack of 25 hexagons from paperpieces.com and 100 of the trapezoid pieces, each 2” on the side. The hexagons are easy to cut out, I used a fons …
I know my posts are kind of blah… I have 3 secret projects I’m working on now, wait and see! (and I DID get a quilt back from McCall’s but don’t have pics yet so maybe tomorrow I’ll show that?) Anyways, as you know I’m still doing the pin cushion swap Here’s March’s pin cushion …
To applique or not applique. That is the question. Today I finished the top for the lotus quilt, now I am still thinking I need to applique some flowers or a vine on the border. Here’s the main part of the top done. Then I trimmed it down to 1/4″ past the seam Now the …
Last night and today I worked some more on this lotus asian quilt I mentioned here. I ironed on the little curve like a drunkard’s path, I had decided to do that instead of making it a template and pinning and sewing a curve, it’s only 2″ so…. better this way But PHEW that was …
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In a few hrs I’m heading to the NC moutains with some friends, 4 women for a mom’s weekend out! this will be a first, except for a church retreat…. Anyways, last night one of my STUDENTS/ customers gave me two quilt to quilt, one was a RUSH, and today I figured I would do …