I can’t believe it’s July 1st already! Here’s my June review of completed items/blocks A dress for Sonja Women of the bible block Kitschy BOM 2 portfolios for my kids teachers pin cushion for swap another Women of the bible BOW Red and white quilt challenge quilt Swoon block Women of the bible BOW Tote …
The “ugly” Irish chain quilt is finally done! It doesn’t look too bad from a distance, but up close it’s UGLY! I wrote about this before, how it’s all about the contrast! lesson learned. On each block I quilted curves from corner to corner, it was pretty easy. I made a scrappy binding from my …
I was “planning” fabrics for the Swoon block swap. I was surprised to see that the colors are very close…. lots of us picked a reddish color and white or beige backgrounds. I do want to say SORRY to those of you who have emailed me about joining now or that you commented earlier about …
I was SEW excited last week to make the final part of the CT Mystery Quilt along. Here’s the final top all done! I LOVE LOVE IT!! it’s the best mystery quilt I’ve made yet. I think it’s also because I love all the colors in it. And the clues in part 1 gave a …
This week’s weather is just GORGEOUS!! Mid 70s or higher, windows are open, I LOVE it! Here’s something NOT gorgeous…. I’m naming it my UGLY quilt. These scrappy chain blocks finally got sewed together and I’m NOT loving it, looks fine here as a 2 x 3” picture but in person, it’s ugly! SIGH, oh …
Are you working on your blocks?? I told you last week that I was almost done with the blocks. Here are mine, somehow I ended up with 2 extras, maybe I’ll just look at this picture and remove the two that don’t show up that well, I already know one block that’s almost smack in …
After last week’s Machine Embroidery Blog hop. (There’s still time to comment for the giveaway!) I just loved the scissor holders and HAD to make one – more later!? I loved the owl here, it’s SEW cute!! I also really wanted the cup cake pin cushions! I sent one to my pincushion swap partner for …
Before I show the Scrappy Chain QAL progress, I’ll show a few things I’ve been working on. This is the WOB BOW : Lydia, who sold purple cloth- the fabrics I have for this quilt don’t have any purple, but the blue was a purplish blue a bit and then I thought the clothing in …
When I showed my idea last week of a scrappy chain quilt, a few of you were interested in a Quilt Along, so here it IS!! I will sew /quilt this along with you, I’m using mine as a leader and ender project (so far) Each week on Monday I’ll do a post with a …