Quilting
WIP Wednesday
My husband and I just moved into our very own home, and with that has come the moving of my sewing space from one house to another. My sewing space will still be located in the basement at the new house, which is a good thing, considering how messy my sewing space tends to be.…
Read MoreMy Little Friend Mini Quilt
I’ve finished up this month’s Project Quilting Focus Through the Prism challenge over the weekend. This month’s theme was Log Cabin blocks. For this month’s challenge, I decided to use my green ROYGBIV fabric and make a scrappy looking quilt. I also chose to add a hand embroidered gnome to this month’s mini quilt, which…
Read MoreWIP Wednesday
I seem to be a real slacker about having WIPs to share, but I do have a new one this week. I’ve been working on this month’s Project Quilting Focus Through the Prism Challenge, which is log cabins. I finished my piecing on Sunday, and spent a day of so trying to decide what bit…
Read MoreBest of Show
So…. this happened….. It’s only the local fair, but I’m beyond excited about getting best of show for all of the quilts, because there are always a lot of beautifully made quilts entered at our fair. What exciting things are going on in your life?
Read MoreJefferson Starship Mini Quilt
I finished up the first of the Focus Through the Prism challenges today. The block to incorporate this month was the Friendship Star. My version of the quilt, “Jefferson Starship,” features a patchwork design, with multiple friendship stars in different sizes, and a hand embroidered alien. The fabrics used in this quilt are Cherrywood Fabric…
Read MoreWIP Wednesday
Progress in the last week has been mostly made by others. I got a quilt back from the quilter yesterday. It still needs trimmed and bound, but the quilt came out beautifully. I’m also working on adding sleeves to the back of several quilts for the local quilt show on Saturday, June 6th. Sharing over…
Read MoreSchrodinger’s Cat Mini Quilt
I finished up the first of the Focus Through the Prism challenges today. The block to incorporate this month was the Churn Dash, sometimes called the Monkey Wrench. My version of the quilt, “Schrodinger’s Cat,” features an offset block inside block design, with embroidered kitten, and hand quilting. Fabrics used in this quilt are Cherrywood…
Read MoreWIP Wednesday
Sewing has been slow going this week. I just haven’t felt inspired to do much. But I did get a couple more eye spy blocks finished. They are coming along nicely, though there are no where near enough yet. The most blocks I have of any one color are blue. There are 5 of those…
Read MoreWIP & Pranks
Happy April 1st! I hear that I’m supposed to be tricking you all, but I don’t think that will actually be happening. As a child, I never liked being the target of April Fools Day pranks- probably because I got picked on enough the rest of the year. Fortunately, As I’ve grown up, I’ve found…
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