Quilting

Excuse me Ozzie!  I am trying to take a picture here.  That's better. This is Licorice Twist, a pattern by Joe Wood (of ThimbleCreek), made with the Dandelion Girl collection by Joanna Figuera (Fig Tree) for Moda.  I did all the pattern directed, but you know what?  I do not think this quilt is finished. …

I had two and a half uninterrupted days of sewing this past weekend, and got a couple of projects to the "nearly completed" stage.  This is Dandelion Girl, made with a fabric group of the same name, designed by Fig Tree for Moda.  The colors are so soothing, in a faded vintagey way.  The pattern…

My stars, that was a bit of a flurry yesterday!  I guess the Grab Bag idea is popular!  I will have more of those, you can count on it.  Next time, maybe purples and greens.  Lots of greens.   Thanks to those of you who are helping me clear the stash out. I had a…

Well, the consensus from yesterday's question:  Do you wash your finished quilts right away to give them that soft quiltier feel?    A resounding YES!!!  As Carrie said, it makes them Nap Worthy.  So true! While at work this week I have had a persistent, distracting notion that I have not been able to get out…

A big thank you to all who shopped at my Tuesday Sale this week!  I hope that you love your selections when they arrive.  I've still got plenty more to sell, so check back next week! The quilt above is the one I recently got out of hock from my favorite quilter.  It is an…

Those are 6 1/2 inch star blocks for a quilt I am making out of some Allspice Tapestry fabric by Fig Tree for Moda.  I started this project months ago and it has been sitting in a box all this time.  It's a shame too, because I really like this fabric and the pattern.  It…

Did you have a good weekend?  Get any sewing done?  The weather was damp and dreary here, and it seemed like a much better idea to stay inside and sew rather than clean up the yard.  Spending time organizing my closets and tossing out some old clothes would have probably been more productive, but I…

This is a quilt I made years ago.  Six or seven years ago at least.  It remains one of my very favorite little quilts to put out during the Springtime.  The quilt was very simple in its construction.  You sew various sized strips together in long rows, and them randomly connect all the rows.  The…

Now that Daylight Savings time has begun again, the Vernal Equinox is just a couple of weeks away, don't you just want to ditch the turtlenecks and boots and get out your cropped pants and tee shirts?  Wear bright springy colors?  Change into that cute straw summer hand bag?  Use some self tanner and get…

I had such a great time participating in the OP Sew Along that Pat Sloan hosted this weekend!  My version of orange was a bit toned down I suppose, but it worked for me.  While I was working on the challenge quilt, a little bell tinkled in the back of my mind.  I vaguely recalled…