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New Project I Could Not Resist
My work schedule has been tough this week, and I have not made much progress on Viola. Over the weekend, however, I did succumb to making a table topper in fabrics that are End of Summer/Early Fall in feeling. I figured once I had those little half square triangles made up I had better get…
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Throw Back Thursday
One of my sisters has been going through her photographs and found this one of me. I believe it is about 30 years old. Maybe 1985 or 1986. We were on a family vacation at Lake Tahoe, and I had brought along this project to hand quilt. I had pieced the quilt for my grandmother…
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New Gadget: Seams Sew Easy
Lori Holt (Bee In My Bonnet) has a new gadget out that is kind of fun. Extremely useful too. She calls it Seams Sew Easy. It is a plastic seam guide you can adhere to the bed of your sewing machine with little sticky dots that are re-positionable. It sure is a lot cuter…
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Civil War Stars
What a happy finish for me. I started this as a scrap buster project and tried to follow along with Barbara Brackman's Civil War Stars in a Time Warp sew along. Barbara has had frequent blog posts on different types of fabrics that were prevalent in the 1800s, and had lots of examples of current…
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Clear Off That Design Wall
I told myself before I do one more thing with Viola, I absolutely have to get my Civil War Stars sewn together and off the design wall. I have run out of space on the smaller design wall to the left and it is time to move Viola on to the bigger one. Sewing these…
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Viola Block Construction
I promised to show you the block construction for the Viola flower and vase units. As you can see, the four units are all different sizes, but with the right positioning, you can sew them together in simple steps. I sewed the top left and bottom left units together, then did the same with…
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Violas in Vases
My first vase of Violas! I toyed with the idea of paper piecing the stems for about five minutes. Have you ever done paper piecing? Well, I am late to that party, without a doubt. I experimented for a little while and you have never seen such a mess. I kept either sewing…
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Good Construction Method
My current project, Viola, calls for a construction method that I think is a very good one. That would be making half square triangles (and other block units) slightly over sized, then trimming them down. These trimmed units are all so uniform in size that sewing them together is a precision lovers dream. If you…
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Violas in Bloom
I am just so proud of these little block units! It is just the look I was going for in my mind, with the scrappy fabrics, and each basket/vase having flowers all in one color range. I will get to making the basket/vase units eventually. Those will go where you see empty spaces on the…
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Back in the Saddle with Viola
What a fun project to work on after being on hiatus for over a month! That project is Viola, a Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. pattern, designed by Carrie Nelson of course. I am participating in a sew along with two friends, Thelma and Sinta. I was so worried that my recently sprained hand would prevent…
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