I posted about my latest quilt, Life’s an Adventure, last week. The name is new (as of yesterday) but after a trip to my LQS to get the backing fabric I got all me ducks in a row. Now I’m just waiting on a callback from a local quilter. The owner of the LQS was…
Running Through Daydreams
When I’m bummed out sometimes I go to my LQS (little quilt shop) and well, I think we all know what happens when we do that. I was a bit bummed about the announcement that my office was closing in 2.5 months and decided I’d take some of my upcoming down time to write some…
Designing Quilt Patterns for 2014
I’m super excited to announce that I’m in the process of designing and testing patterns for two beautiful large quilts and a baby quilt. One thing I’m not always particularly talented at is mixing fabrics from different lines and the Fat Quarter Shop Blogger’s bundles has helped me fill up my stash with beautifully sets…
Damage Free Curtains (Got Ruffled!)
Let’s start off with the fact that I’m not a huge ruffle girl. I signed up for the Think Ruffle hop as a challenge for myself; try to push out of my 2D” comfort zone to ruffle a few feathers. So what projects are on my to do that I can incorporate ruffles… Bingo:…
Solstice Stars Sampler: the Finished Quilt
Solstice stars was completed just before Thanksgiving both quilting and binding. I machine bound the quilt because I wanted to give machine binding a try and since it was a quilt I was keeping for myself I didn’t feel like I needed to go over the top with perfection. My machine binding needs a lot…
Quilt of Valor: Top Pieced & Complete
Saturday we did it. With an 9 hour marathon of ironing, cutting, pinning, sewing and pressing we completed our Quilt of Valor top. My mom and 2 of my closest friends gathered around the kitchen table, set up the press board in the living room and with a pitcher of apple sangria, some finger sandwiches…
Printed Quilt Label
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…
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…