a little quilt marking tip (and more finished projects)
So, you know when you have to draw diagonal lines on squares? Sometimes I don’t have a fancy water-soluble pen handy, and chalk rubs off if you’re doing hundreds of squares at a time (ask me how I know)… but if you try to mark with a sharp pencil, especially a regular 2B pencil, sometimes […]
busy worker bee
So my awesome friend Alissa (whom you probably have all heard of) recommended me to someone at Robert Kaufman (yeah, THE Robert Kaufman) to sew samples for them. within the day, I recieved fabric for the 1st top (luckily I just piece the tops, then they are going to Angela (!!!) for quilting, then they […]
Betty’s Baby Quilt
As I import, I realize there are lots of Drafts that I never finished, so here’s one… I made this quilt for a friend’s first baby… I also made them a wedding quilt (perhaps pre-blog?), so this was made with all the scraps from their quilt. I did actually present this WITH the VERY late […]
Me and Roxie
This is Roxie: I have a post, just for her, coming soon. last night, she and I worked for about 8 hours on a quilt top using Jay McCarroll’s Habitat Fabric for an LAMQG challenge (sponsored by FreeSpirit, who makes the fabric)… Roxie is AWESOME (and powerful! and beautiful! and amazing, and EIGHTY YEARS OLD!) ok, […]
Embroidered Quilt, Block 1
A few weeks ago, at the Long Beach International Quilt Festival, I fell in LOVE with an amazing antique quilt (only $800!) from the 40’s. (Sold by Cindy’s Antique Quilts, though this particular one isn’t on the website) I love the blocks, I love the embroidery, I love the quilting. But I don’t love yellow, […]
Cathedral Windows Quilt
Ta da! This quilt took a ton of work. When I thought it was done, I looked at it and decided it actually wasn’t, so I made it twice as big. Now it’s CalKing sized. Craziness, but totally worth it.
Baby owls are adorable
Aren’t they? Don’t lie, you love them. And so will Jon and Catey’s new baby.
Quilting help
One must always have an assistant for larger jobs. Here’s Leonora inspecting the newly finished Cathedral Windows quilt.