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Pat Sloan’s OP Sew Along
I was reading La Vie En Rosie today and read about a friend of hers, Pat Sloan, who is hosting a virtual retreat this weekend. It is called the OP Sew Along–OP stands for Orange Pile. Pat's theory is that we all have an orange pile sitting around neglected some where, and that if we…
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No Need for Concern
I think my family is beginning to worry about me. For decades I have been plodding perking along, making quite traditional style quilts, and being quite content with them. I did not jump on the batik bandwagon, despite having many friends who were over the moon for them. Oh, I have made quilts using batiks…
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I Learn Something New Every Day
I got my batik blocks sewn into rows! Do I love the way these colors play against one another? Oh yes. As I seem to be doing more and more lately, I made about 16 blocks extra. Some of my blocks were not working with the others, so I replaced them. Remember in the old…
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I Can’t Stop Myself
I stopped by my local quilt shop on the way home from work yesterday. Oh my, they certainly had a lovely selection of batiks. I just had to have these yummy greens. And the blues. And bless me, the reds too.
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You Simply MUST Trim
I know I have harped on this subject in the past, but it is so important, I feel I must get up on the soap box again. This past weekend I made 40 quarter square triangle blocks for one of the borders for my Summer Wind Moor is Moor quilt. A quarter square triangle block…
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Summer Wind
This past weekend, I got one more border around the Summer Wind quilt top. This pattern begins with a large center star medallion, and you add progressive borders until the quilt is as big as you want it. This finishes at around 72 inches, I believe, but if I decide to add a final border…
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Snow in Santa Margaritaville
Remember my post from last Friday? The one with the picture of the plum blossoms, and me bragging about how spring was here already in sunny California? La de da and hurray for me. Well check it out. My son lives 100 miles south of us, in a town called Santa Margarita, right on the…
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Batik Progress
I made good progress on my batik challenge blocks this weekend. I think I have nearly 40 blocks made out of 50! I found myself in a bit of a quandary though. Some of the blocks have high contrast, which in small doses, makes your eye "dance" over the quilt top from light spot to…
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It’s Here
This is why I live in California. Spring comes in February. The harbinger of spring is the sighting of the first plum blossoms, and I spied mine this week. I don't care what Puxatony Phil had to say about how many more weeks of winter we have looming ahead. The true sign of better times…
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Shameless Copying
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…
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