I think I’ve mentioned before in passing that we are currently apartment sitting/cat-sitting while our middle daughter is away on a three month temporary work assignment.   Actually… our daughter had been cat-sitting this cat for a co-worker who was on a temporary work assignment. When that work assignment became permanent, our daughter ended up with the cat which we are…
I haven’t made as much progress as I would have liked in the machine sewing department this past week, due to some issues with “Stitch.” “Stitch” is the name we’ve given to the Vintage Singer 201 that we gave our middle daughter for Christmas because it’s serial number starts with AH626. For those of you who might have missed the…
In last Wednesday’s Work In Progress (WIP) post I mentioned that I had the fabrics chosen and the zippers bought for two more sewing kits. The kits have been cut out and all the pieces placed in individual plastic zip bags ready for me to start sewing. The Star Fruit Cushion would have been completed except that I got frustrated…
As I mentioned on Monday, all I needed to do was add the borders and my 4th of July picnic quilt top would be complete. I got the narrow border in Kona Snow added yesterday and I finished adding the second border in the feature fabric this morning. I really, really like how it turned out. Â And I’m so…
Yesterday afternoon, I spent the afternoon sewing the blocks for my Independence Day picnic quilt. This is proving to be a fun, easy quilt to make. I started sewing blocks around noon and finished pressing the last block about 5:30. With a break for a late lunch and to go grocery shopping, I’d say it took about 4 hours to…
I’ve been telling myself that I didn’t need a cutting mat, rulers and rotary cutter because I had all those things packed away in storage. But there were projects that I wanted to work on that required those things to be able to cut them out without having to go through the laborious process of making templates of each piece…
Our second quilt shop stop was The Quilt Box in Dry Ridge, KY. This is one of my favourite shops to explore not just for the wonderful selection of fabrics but because it’s a pretty drive to get there. (I’ve written about this shop before here and here.) The directions to the shop say: “Take I-75 Exit 159 Dry Ridge.…
When traveling I like to break up a long road trip by stopping in at quilt shops along the way, so on the first leg of our trip back up to Canada, we stopped into Mammaw’s Thimble in Knoxville, TN. I’d stopped in there once before on one of our trips and was impressed with the wide selection of quilt…
Monday, I needed to drive up to Goderich to Mark’s Work Wearhouse to pick up a safety jacket for Dave for him to wear on the job and I took the opportunity afterwards to stop into Quilters By the Square to pick up sewing machine needles that I needed and to spend some time browsing through and fondling the fabric.…
While searching through and organizing my computer photo files, I came across pictures I had taken while joining the striped borders for the flying zebra baby and child-sized quilts. At the time, I thought maybe others might like to see how I went about sewing the strips of border fabric together on the diagonal while at the same time matching…
