As a young quilter (young in both quilt years and age I suppose) I’ve more than once finished a quilt and not included a label. I know, amateur stuff. I went to a quilt guild meeting where the presenter embroidered beautiful labels but I have little experience with embroidery so that’s probably not right for…
Month: November 2013
Solstice Stars Almost Complete
After blogging about each star I got wrapped up in other posting about other projects that I had completely neglected to update on the status of my beautiful Solstice Star quilt so we are going to do a fast forward on it’s progress thus far… (Get ready for a photo progress adventure!) I decided to do…
Farmer’s Wife, meet Penny Patch
I mentioned in my penny patch post the other day that I had two Farmer’s Wife blocks in my quilt, well I added a 3rd and am so pleased with how it adds to the quilt’s layout. I think I might actually be ready to commit and get to sewing this top together. I used…
Pricing, Value and Comparisons on Moda Pre-Cut Bundles
If you’re like me there’s something about a charm pack or layer cake in your favorite designer fabrics that has you lusting to get your hands on all those different coordinated prints to make something magnificent. Mind you, I could also have named this post “Buyers remorse when I thought it would be appropriate to…
Penny Patch in Progress
Tuesday night and last night I went home and did some sewing for the Penny Patch QAL. I think this quilt’s name is going to be Lil Miss Penny. I’m not terribly clever when naming things… I made some decisions last night too, I am only going to do 10×10 rows, this will yield 60×60…
Catching up to the Penny Patch Quilt Along
I’ll preface this with saying I’m just ecstatic to have come across this quilt along before it started and be in a position to actually participate in it! I’ve kept up so far and hope to keep it that way even with other projects happening simultaneously. Picking Fabric This is the first quilt in which I’ve done…
Quilt of Valor: Fabric acquired
Weekend before last between the crazy sales at Jo-Ann’s with 30% off most of the quilting cotton selection and my additional 30% off total purchase coupon I knew this was the time to carpe fabric for the quilt of valor quilt. Problem is with sales like that I need an adult when going into that store.…