I mentioned that my mom told me that she found a box full of of treasures the other day in one of Gram’s closets..
Boy, did she.
First, there was a little box full of embroidery thread and instructions for different stitches. I remember getting this out sometime when I was a [...]
The patchwork class I taught Saturday and Sunday was a success. I even learned something. Two of the ladies in the class were hardcore quilters, but needed help figuring out how to pick fabrics and wanted a fresh look at things, which is why they took my class. I kept getting guff for not pressing [...]
I’m teaching a modern patchwork class this weekend. I’ll be showing how to stash, scrap bust and make some pretty sweet improv blocks. There’s still time to sign up … you know.
Currently I’m working on this super girly improv piece. I thought I’d do something different and was inspired to use [...]
Quite some time ago — okay, a realllllly long time ago — I posted some quilt blocks I had put together. Yes. I realize there was a 2-year time lapse there …
This year I’m going through the giant pile of WIP quilt pieces and finishing them. I swear. For real.
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You may remember this quilt top from 2009 when I originally had it slated to become a finished quilt for my niece’s first birthday.
Well, as you may know I’m really bad about finishing quilts. Mostly because it isn’t cheap to get them quilted professionally and up until I got my new [...]
I love giveways, especially ones that involve fabulous fabric.
Quokka Quilts is hosting a blogger’s choice giveaway for 12 print fat quarters and 3 solids (holy cow!) of your choice from Fat Quarter Shop.
Since I mostly make bags, I picked a bunch of patterns conducive to bag-making. I also mocked up a couple of [...]
I went to my first Des Moines Modern Quilt Guild meeting last Thursday evening. My friend Doris has been bugging me to go since she is one of the co-founding members. I missed out on their Habitat challenge and their ugly fabric swap, but came last week. They have a guest [...]
We are moving again soon. And this weekend is the last weekend that I don’t have plans before the move, so I’m getting my last hurrah out of my system because all my crafty stuff has to go in storage as soon as possible.
I started going through my craft stuff and decided to finish [...]
Um, I may have gotten the t-shirts for this in the spring of 2009. Like March 2009. Regardless, I finally finished it. It broke my sewing machine twice. Twice. Therefore, not making any more quilts (at least quilting them). So if you want a quilt, I’ll make the top, but you’re on your own for [...]
A long time ago I created a TON of blocks for what was going to become my ugly string quilt. I quickly realized that entirely too much work goes into making a quilt for me to purposely make an ugly one. And my blocks weren’t turning out as nice as [...]
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