I’ve finished hand basting my Disappearing Nine Patch and it’s ready to quilt. For the DP9 blocks I’ve decided to free motion quilt them alternating between dragonflies and butterflies. So I’ve been doodling some dragonflies. As you can see… some of my dragonflies are pretty strange looking but the doodling helped me to figure out how I could fmq in…
Can you believe the year is half over?!! Time to really focus on getting projects finished. I didn’t get nearly as many things done as I had listed on my 2015 Finish Along Q2 list; which I will admit was definitely overly ambitious. But I did manage to complete 3 small projects and two larger projects so I’m going to…
We lived in the States for too long and came to love it too much to not celebrate the 4th of July even though we’re back living in Canada for the time being. So…. Happy Independence Day! Have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend with much Aloha!! For those who might like to know about the different pieces in our…
This quilt top is my oldest unfinished quilt and will be my July goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes (ALYofF.) I started it back in February 2011 and finished it in March 2011. You can read my progress posts here, here, here and here. Here are a couple more views taken from different angles: At the time I finished…
My Forest Friends quilt was my May and then my June “A Lovely Year of Finishes Goal” and there were times in the last week that I wondered if it would end up being my July goal as well. Before starting to do the free motion quilting on it, I tested the tension and stitch setting on a practice sandwich. …
There’s been a new addition to my Under the Sea crazy quilt block since I last shared a photo of it. When I was trying to draw the sea star on the sea bottom I couldn’t get it looking the way I wanted, so our middle daughter drew it for me so that the arms look like it’s crawling over…
This morning, I finished hand quilting around the last of the Forest Friends. I really like how quilting with #8 perle cotton makes whatever you’re quilting around stand out. The owl took the longest and was the most challenging as it’s in the center of the quilt. Here’s the squirrel: And here’s the raccoon: Both the raccoon and squirrel have…
My Forest Friends quilt has been hand basted and is ready to quilt. I’ll start by hand quilting around the squirrel, owl and raccoon in the same way that I did around the plum pudding and calendar on my Christmas Mouse Wall Hanging before I move on to doing the machine quilting. I’m also working on two embroidery projects. A…
Last week on my work in progress post, I showed the back that I’d pieced for my Forest Friends quilt. Today I’ll share a quick post about how I pieced the back so that it was almost impossible to see where I’d joined the pieces of fabric in order to make the back big enough for the quilt. To start,…
My June goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes is going to be the same as my May goal was… finish my Forest Friends quilt. May came and went so quickly that it slipped by without me even working on the quilt. But as of today, it’s one step closer to being done. This afternoon, I pieced the back of…