Quilts in Progress

Remember the fabric Wuthering Heights by 3 Sisters for Moda that came out a couple of years ago?  I had an entire bundle of it that was totally neglected because I was procrastinating about cutting into it.  I didn't want to do the same quilt everyone else was making out of this fabric, and I…

My posting schedule is all goofed up this week.  Reason?  I have been sewing and gallivanting.  Don't you love that word?  Gallivanting?  It perfectly sums up what I have been doing. The quilt blocks you see above are all laid out on the Design Bed.  The pattern is Apple Crisp from Evelyn Sloppy's book Log…

I worked on two projects while I was at the quilting retreat this past weekend.   The blocks shown in the photo above are from a pattern called Spice Cake by Mary's Cottage Quilts.  The blocks are just a simple snowball block made from a layer cake!  I used a layer cake of Charisma by Chez…

  What a glorious long weekend the Thanksgiving Holiday was!  I had plenty of time to enjoy all my favorite pastimes–visiting with my family, puttering in the kitchen, reading a good book, going shopping, and spending some time in my sewing room. We usually decorate our house for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving, but never…

  I have a little trick I'll share with you that makes sewing quilt blocks together easier for me (especially blocks that have a lot of units). I start constructing the block by sewing the first two squares together for each row.  I do not clip my threads so the rows stay connected.  I then…

I am in the thick of things with the construction of Coventry, that sweet pattern that I am making using the Peace on Earth fabric group.  What did I fail to notice when I launched into the pattern?  The one inch square border!  Not just one, but a double checkerboard border.  Man oh man, I…

Thanks to the Nancys (Near Philadelphia and In Wisconsin), I got out of my funk regarding Meadowbrook Farm.  Actually, thanks to all of you who encouraged me to starch, press, re-think, finish, send it away, or put it up on a shelf in a brown bag forever.  You were ALL right!  I must admit I was very close…

Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight……No, not that kind of star.  Fabric stars!  I pulled out the UFO labeled "Roman Holiday" and got to work on it over the weekend.  Lots of stars in this pattern–in fact, it is ALL stars and flying geese!  The pattern is Opening Day by Miss Rosie's Quilt…

I admit it.  I am weak.  My goal this summer was to finish a good percentage of the unfinished projects that are filling up my stash closet and plastic project storage boxes.  I had this fantasy in my mind that at the end of the summer I would pose for a picture next to a…

Seriously, I should just come up with a new category called Unfinished Quilts.  Or maybe I need to add a new side bar that is entitled Gallery Of Shame, and show pictures of all my unfinished projects.  The Rigid Quilter has moved to my house from Florida, where she was previously living with Karen Dianne,…