I’ve been busy this morning. ( my kids have half a day at school, so I may not get much done the rest of the day) I have 3 owls ready to stuff! and I made 4 more snap bags. I do find that the snaps don’t close 100%, I guess that’s normal!?? they are …
Yesterday I finished a customer’s quilt. this cute butterfly quilt 🙂 My customer mailed me this quilt and it had some cute butterfly fabric, so I HAD to FMQ long arm free form butterflies all over it. it’s easier to see the butterflies on the back, even though I used a light purple thread as …
My Last post mentioned that my son had the stomach bug tuesday with throwing up and “D”, well I got it thursday! NO FUN… especially being pregnant…. woke up with it thursday morning at 3am and pretty much puked hourly until 11, then just rested the rest of the day and friday. thursday I didn’t …
I posted on the wonky Bee blog yesterday when I got the last block in the mail (I’m still missing mine) But they look so cute! ALL of them Here’s one I got the other day. and one I got yesterday Aren’t they all cute lined up like that? and one of the ladies sent …
Spring Break is over and I’m back to normal. It’s nice having a quiet house again, not that, of course I love having my kids and husband home, you know what I mean 🙂 Meanwhile I’ve been getting more mail!! Not sure if I showed these top two yet or not, in the same package …
As you know I love playing with EQ7 and yesterday, playing with both photoshop and EQ, I emailed Electric Quilt – when in doubt email EQ!! and guess what?? they DO have a color picker in EQ, where you can insert a picture and use the picker and either find a color that matches that …
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Yesterday we went to the zoo and today we are recooperating from the trip 🙂 I finally found my photoshop CD and got it installed on my laptop because I wanted to play with it and make little “palettes” using the color picker and then transfer those to EQ7. which was harder than it looks. …
Oh oh! I’ve been TAGGED by traveling quilter I’ve seen these on blog recently. should be fun! here’s Debbie’s questions for me 1. What is your favorite part of making a quilt? Hmm, I don’t think there’s a part I DON’T like. I like to design a quilt in EQ, pick out fabrics, cut the …
I received another wonky house in the mail the other day it’s really cute 🙂 I also got the brown fabrics for this fall leaf block swap I was part of maybe 2 yrs ago, these blocks are HUGE….I think we all got 24, but I used 18 which is more than enough. I first …
I figured I’d show how I finish off binding on my quilts 🙂 I make 2 1/2″ strips and sew about 3/8″ from the edge- it’s the center stitch setting on my sewing machine and the edge of the foot (so about 1/3 of the folded width) I start about 5″ or so from the …