I’m all caught up on customer quilts! ( I needed to finish this one because another customer is dropping off a quilt tomorrow) This was a “tricky” quilt, it was made from signature blocks and then I had to quilt words around on the sashing. I drew them first with a chalk pencil or frixion …
I’ve had a busy week with things OTHER than quilting….. boo hoo! 🙂 Monday I had a dentist appt. which got rescheduled because they didn’t get authorization because I’m pregnant- I didn’t know to tell them before hand. Tuesday, hmm now I can’t remember what I did. Wednesday- field trip chaperone with my daughter’s class …
I’m SOOOOO excited…. I got an email from McCalls’s this morning that they want to publish two of my quilt patterns/ideas… can’t wait to get started on them. This is the first time I’ve ever done this, I’m so excited, can you tell!? can’t tell you MUCH about them though.
The other day I downloaded a color wheel pic and started playing with it I just LOVE colors (as you know) I’ve never seen this complicated of a color wheel, but I liked it 🙂 so I started playing in EQ. Here I did a “split complimentary” layout Split complimentary is where you pick a …
Having a 45 min drive to church is good for me, I get to see and work on the binding on quilts. So I finished a few already I finished the bunny table runner, a kit from CT, but I changed the border a little, I believe it had a ton of different colors and …
I know it’s march 4th but I forgot to make a collage of stuff I made last month. so here it is. top left, a BOM for pine tree Fabric balls for my kids a little apples mini charm doll/teddy bear quilt for my daughter an asian looking quilt top jelly roll race quilt applique …
I didn’t post yesterday, so I figured I’d post today! Yesterday I finished the top for the 4 seasons quilt, I’ve been toying with the idea of doing applique on the border, spring summer fall winter etc, but I think I’ll leave it blank, what do you think? while I was sewing I ate the …
tree quilt top, goodies and nativity panel for customer Read More »
I’ve been wanting to do a book/pattern review for a long time. so I’ve picked my top 3 things I’ll show them in the order I’ve aquired these number 1: Yellow Brick road. My all time favorite and most used pattern, it’s super easy and great for beginners. I taught this class at the local …
I FINALLY finished appliqueing the lotus flower quilt, it took a long time! I did figure out a trick though, if I twisted and turned the quilt top clockwise before I started and started with the most bunch-y ness by the machine, as I was going, it would un-bunch more and more as I turned …
Last night I decided to work on the four seasons tree blocks here’s the pieces all cut out laying out the pieces, the only one I wasn’t sure about was the summer one, but I kept it here’s the blocks sewn together playing with a different layout, I don’t like it, looks like the swaztika, …