To run some tests on the new machine I decided to put the quilts to the side for a few days to sew up a pillow. The pillow uses scraps from Dreaming in Honey (the extras when making the diamond in a square blocks and will let me practice piecing, quilting, making piping and general…
Month: May 2014
Valor & Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial day weekend I brought the finally completed quilt of valor to my Grandmother’s cottage for some assistance holding it up for some final quilty photos before I send it off; so here it is in it’s patriotic glory! Isn’t she wonderful? Gosh I just love this quilt. It’s a oversized vintage star block based…
Dreaming in Honey
I have to be the only quilt blogger that is TERRIBLE about posting the final post about quilts. Maybe it’s part of the emotional attachment of that last stitch of the binding where once it’s done its…done! Seems obvious but it’s weird. This is my piece of art that I’ve labored anywhere from 10’s of…
Getting to Know My Walking Foot
I’ve signed up for Craftsy classes before but I recently purchased the Creative Quilting With Your Walking Foot class with Jacquie Gering. I watched while I wrapped up on the plus sign quilt top (sneak peak below!) and I gotta say WOW! After watching through the first 2 lessons of the class I was inspired…
Sewing with Outdoor Fabric
Recently I’ve been sewing with some Better Homes and Garden Outdoor Fabric that I picked up at Jo-Ann’s. It’s for a project I’ll be posting as part of the Sew We Quilt “A Perfect Picnic” blog hop. I’ve had a stinky habit of waiting till the last minute to work on blog hop projects but…
Spring Cleaning
Got quite a bit of spring cleaning done yesterday! I finally gathered up my unused fabric and donated it at the fabric store a few towns over. I had some home decor that never got used for a project and some apparel fabric from my occasional delusion that I’m skilled enough to make apparel I’d…
Turn your Ironing Board into a Mega Pressboard
Almost two years ago I picked up my current ironing board. I had to buy a new one after a 2:30 AM disaster but that’s a whole other story entirely. I picked the big one at Target cause it felt like it had better padding than the other one and the larger size should accommodate…
Life’s an Adventure is Ready for the Longarm!
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…