I don’t know if you noticed but a while ago I added a new page to my blog called 2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done. See it up there between the “Home” and “About” tabs? On it I’ve listed all the projects that I’ve completed so far this year and projects that are in need of completion. As…
I found some treasures in the drawers and bench seat of the Art Deco sewing machine cabinet. This small envelope is just one of them. And inside… Four and a half sheets of unused embroidery transfers. I’m thinking I’m going to have to do those little chore girls in redwork on 10 or 12 inch blocks and then make a…
Over the weekend, I got the flying zebra baby quilt and one of the child-sized quilts hand basted. Dave’s away on a contract for a few days, which means that it won’t matter if I have a larger quilt taking up residence on the dining room table for a day or two, so I decided to baste my scrappy nine…
Today I’m working on sewing the quilt back for this scrappy nine patch quilt top: A larger photo of the quilt top can be seen here. I’m using a thrifted white cotton sheet for the back but it wasn’t quite long enough so I added a row of blocks made from the leftovers fabrics from the front. When I was…
Originally I had only cut enough of the flying zebra fabric to make a baby quilt. But when I realized I had enough left to turn the rest of it into two more child-sized quilts if I added a couple of horizontal strips in a coordinating fabric between the repeating print sections, I decided to go ahead and a make…
My entry into the Bloggers Quilt Festival would certainly not qualify as the most beautiful or most intricately pieced or the most original. Its design is a simple one; flannel blocks from a bear print that I fussy cut alternating with a coordinating yellow flannel. Those blocks are framed with a single border cut from that same yellow flannel with…
Since I started quilting, I’ve seen many quilt appeals to help the victims of natural disasters and I’ve donated to a few of them in one way or another. Yesterday, I went searching to see if there were any quilt appeals to help the victims of the recent tornadoes that swept through the South last week. This is what I’ve…
Dave was in the Canadian Army for 25 years before he retired in August of 2000 to take a job on Maui and thus ended our Army adventure and began our living in the USA adventure. Those 25 years were good years, but I won’t lie and say they were easy years. Dave did two NATO tours, one peacemaking (to…
I completed the green teddy baby quilt last Wednesday and was able to mail it off on our way out of town before our marathon trip to Canada. It’s making its way to a little one in Japan via the Quilters Newsletter “Quilts for Japan” Appeal. I received delivery confirmation that it had arrived Monday at Quilters Newsletter, well ahead…
Well actually this is an unsewing tip. Sooner or later, everyone who sews has to unpick or seam rip. When I first started sewing back in the seventies, I used the method my Grandmother taught me; which was to very, very carefully cut the seams apart using a razor blade that had a piece of medical tape taped over one…