Quilting

Several of my blogging friends have told me that "Drumbeat" has been published in the past couple of weeks, so I no longer am reserved about not showing my "Cupcake" version of the new Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company pattern.  The piecing was quite simple–just quarter square triangles and nine patches.  I had the most fun…

I recently got a couple of quilts back from my quilter and thought you might like to see the pretty all over quilt patterns they used.  Here is my Retro Halloween Quilt (the back of it).  Isn’t that fabric adorable?  My quilt was quilted at Prairiequeens, my favorite quilt shop.  I just love that place,…

My UFO (Unfinished Objects) group meets three times each month.  We have been meeting for years and have gotten to be such good friends.  We just work on whatever projects we choose to bring to the meeting and spend as much time (or more) chit chatting than we do sewing.  It is relaxing and fun…

I am doing my Happy Dance because I finally finished the quilt top I call Jelly Bellies, after the pattern of the same name by Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company.  The pattern is an old one, but is still available.  The fabrics I used were various prints from several Kansas Troubles groups (by…

There you see the last stitch in my binding for my Fall Sunflowers quilt.  I challenged Lisa to get one quilt bound by Sunday night, not so much to push her into finishing one, but to push myself!  It is such a good feeling to put that last stitch in.  I find any kind of…

I know, I know, I have really been missing in action lately.  I’m sorry for the lack of regular posts and am extremely grateful to all of you who check my blog regularly to see what I am up to.  I’ll tell you in a minute. Sunday I attended a Banish the UFOs get-together (that…

Some of you noticed this quilt in the background of a photo of my Featherweight a week or so ago and asked about it.  This quilt is very subtle–what they call a "blended" quilt.  All the colors are pretty much the same tones so one print or color just blends into the next, making the…

istockphoto Remember old Yogi Bear from Jellystone Park?  "Hey Boo Boo!  I am smarter than the averrrr-age bear!"  "Hey Boo Boo!  Want to go on a piiiick-a-nick?"  Well, Carrie Nelson named one of the classes she taught us "Jellystone", because her new pattern features a variation of the classic Bear Paw block.  I can’t show…

I was working on an original quilt design for my daughter Sara to use in her upcoming shop, and this is what I came up with.  It was going to be bigger, and it was supposed to be easy, but those things didn’t happen.  The pattern was intended to be aimed at a beginning level…

  Back in April, when we were on our quilting retreat, my daughter Sara created the cutest quilt using two charm packs and some additional white yardage for lattices.  While she was away in Japan last week, I decided to try out her pattern with the new Look and Learn charm packs by American Jane…