Today, Dave and I made a trip down to Costco to pick up some basics that we were starting to run low on. Costco is right off of Exit 269. Since Red Hen Fabrics is just at little farther along at Exit 265, I decided we might as well make a stop there too. I took along the Smiling Sunflower…
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you might remember these Quilt-As-You-Go blocks and the roll of binding that I sent off to Jan Mac of Oz Comfort Quilts to be made into a quilt for those who were affected by the horrible flooding that occurred in Australia earlier this year. If you click over here, you can…
I was going through all the pictures I took last week and realized that I had forgotten to post about the fun surprize in the form of a squishie that was waiting for me when I got home from Canada. While I was away getting our youngest settled into his second year of college, I got an e-mail from Impera…
On Saturday, I got the third hot pad quilted after a quick trip to the fabric store to buy more thread. Free motion quilting takes a lot of thread! Then there was another stop in the sewing action while Dave worked on figuring out why the potted motor of my 15-91 was leaking oil. He ended up having to take…
I’m going to start off by saying I am ridiculously pleased with myself. Last night during FNSI, I was having trouble figuring out how I wanted to quilt the hot pads I had prepped and ready (see previous post.) I had toyed with the idea of free motion quilting them. For a while now I’ve been watching videos on…
On my Unfinished Projects list I have listed two table runners/toppers with a notation saying they needed to have borders added and then be basted, quilted and bound. The blocks in these two items were made back when AmandaJean over at crazy mom quilts was hosting her first quilt-a-long. Not only was it AmandaJean’s first quilt-a-long, it was my first…
I’ve moved two more projects from the Unfinished Projects to the Completed Projects list on my 2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done page. First, is this crocheted beaded Christmas tree garland: I made two of these garlands a couple of years ago and then one again last year, but that still wasn’t enough garland to go all the…
I’ve moved one more thing from the Unfinished Projects list to the Projects Completed So Far on my “2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done” list. Now that’s it’s quilted, you can hardly see where I pieced the fabric for the back. I had been a little concerned because in order to line those circles up perfectly I would…
The binding is on the flying zebra baby quilt, but it didn’t get done last night. I have a tendency to underestimate how long it will take to do things or to take into account pesky little details like having to stop to eat, etc. I had miscalculated how much time it would take to sew in all the quilting…
Most tutorials for sewing strips together to make quilt bindings tell you to line the end of the strips up perpendicular to one another like this: Then you are instructed to draw a diagonal line from the top left corner of the top strip to the right corner of the bottom strip like this: Then you are told to sew…