For a lot of my quilting career I've found myself answering the endless question "What's that one for?" with "I don't know, I just wanted to make it." Either that or giving the questioner (i.e my husband) the evil eye. Many of my quilts have had intended purposes from start to finish, but many ... VIEW POST
Fabric! And a finish (almost…)
just home from quilt shop. fabric for cousin's wedding quilt -- wedding is in October the green is much prettier in person. going to use the corn and beans block, set on point with sashing. these blocks were pieced months ago. set them together, added borders and quilting yesterday. lynn? ... VIEW POST
The Attention Span of a Gnat aka WIP Wednesday (on Wednesday, even!)
So, the plan was: little to no sewing until the studio was put back together, and definitely no new projects until a goodly number of things got finished. Yeah, right. Like I was going to manage that. Last night, after I posted about the quilts that I thought I needed to be working on, I went ... VIEW POST
File this under: what was I thinking?
I have been spending some quality time picking things up in my sewing room. It started with a desire to see my countertop again, and to maybe clear a path to the TV (I could barely get there without stepping on...something(s)), and has now morphed into a desire to just clean the whole durned thing ... VIEW POST
More feathered star stuff
It's like a sickness. I have a gazillion other things I could or ought to be doing, but I keep getting pulled back in to work on those feathered star centers. What I was mostly objecting to with regards to the options I was trying for the centers was how STARK they were. I wasn't sure the centers ... VIEW POST
Finally finished
I finally finished quilting this piece a few days ago. I had been claiming that there were 42 blocks when in fact there were only 36. You can still see my blue pen marks that I used as the guidelines for the freehand feathers. I was given free reign, and I'm going to tell her the design is Hugs ... VIEW POST
