While I've been busy doing other things (bookkeeping, blech), I've also been working hard quilting. My next customer quilts require me to custom quilt them, so I've thrown a couple of my own into the queue until I'm ready. This poor quilt has been hanging around my sewing room for years. Many ... VIEW POST
WIP Wednesday
This doesn't really look any different than prior pictures, however you can tell the flowers have been fused in place. (Um, you can tell, because it's no longer sitting on the carpet in the doorway, but has been moved without all of the flowers falling off...) The pictures aren't doing it ... VIEW POST
MEthod to the madness
I wasn't sure that you could see it in last night's picture, but there is an underlying structure to the explosion of flowers. This is the same photo, with the heart vine outlined in Photoshop. So my latest "thing" is words, text on my quilts, and I've been trying to think of how I could ... VIEW POST
More is more
This is the applique project that I haven't been working on (see my previous post titled "OPPOSITES"). I'm going with the "MORE IS MORE" theory of applique. It's all fusible web, and everything's just sitting there, whcih gets kind of interesting when the dog decides to walk in the door and ... VIEW POST
What I’ve Been Up To
In reverse order: Today: Third grade field trip to visit several museums in Waterloo/Cedar Falls. Actually? A pretty good day. Kids were fairly well behaved, bus wasn't as noisy as it could have been (although, Will made me sit with him in the back seat which was terribly bumpy...glad I'd had ... VIEW POST
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
The weary travelers have returned -- we actually got home yesterday, and I intended to blog a bit last night, but we were only home for about an hour before we headed out to the movie theater -- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was playing in town, and we didn't want to miss it! Remarkably, ... VIEW POST