Last nights quilt blocks…
2 bee blocks (log cabin for Nicola, dots for Rache), and 3 Modify Tradition Quilt Along blocks for me, using scraps my mom brought me last week. I love red.
National quilting day!
In honor of NQD, I’m going to do the following:Appreciate the quilts on my bedGo check out a new fabric store with my kiddos (just looking. Max of $10 to spend)Recover my ironing boardDo this week’s modify tradition quilt along blockSTART QUILTING my “piepan” quilt! Perhaps my list is overly ambitious.Maybe I should just do […]
The border is done!
ok, hopefully now it’ll measure 112″x112″ 88″ x 88″ was just too small for our Cal King bed…. so I have an inch of white (or, rather, white on white dots) then 7″ of Kona navy then 3″ more white dots on white then I’m planning on binding with the Kona. Purple just looked too […]
It’s done!
I’ll take good photos with a nice camera in the am, but I’m so happy!I think I need/want to add a border, I have some dark blue scraps… A nice “modern” chunky pieced border of dark blue all around… Because my bed is bigger than I thought…. (it’s a California king, so 90″x90″ isn’t quite […]
Scrap baby quilt for a friend..
Murch, who lived down the hall from me senior year, and was a Whiff with C, and his lovely wife, Susan, are having a baby!They were married just months after us, and I made them a quilt for their wedding….When I found out they were having a baby, I waited and waited to find out […]
Quilt Blocks….
Last night was piecing night, obvi….I made my “Dandy” block for the quilt along…I made whirl-a-gig blocks for Heather’s month and I made triangles for Liz…. (the left is called “cards,” the right one is called “roses”more pictures on Flickrtonight I’ll work on my pie pan quilt, hopefully….
various bits…
My husband is very Irish, so I decided to put a little bit of effort into decorating for St Pat’s day. Tada! yup, I am NOT a decorator. But I am proud of that wreath! it’s made out of coffee filters, I just glued them onto a circle cut out of a paper bag, and […]
adrenaline/caffeine/cold medicine
I’m sick. I have a really painful sore throat, so talking is rough right now. but once the kiddos were in bed, I had no need for talking! I drew this cement mixer… and then cut lots of little bits, and did a LOT of blanket-stitch, and some thread painting, and got this: I’ll get […]
Wordless WIP Wednesday.
(because I’m sick)
Quilting catch-up!
Tonight, with help from a large Coke/Root Beer (mixed together 70/30, it tastes a lot like Vanilla Coke!), I made this weeks block for Modify Tradition (the block is called Shoo Fly)… Again, I’m only using scraps, so the red is from the bolt from the thrift store, the white was left over from… uh, […]