Just a quick post today while I take a break from quilting my Seeds of Friendship Bolster Cover. I want to have this finished and on the bed in the guest bedroom before our oldest daughter and future son-in-law get here. The original plan had them arriving here Thursday but their flight out of Shanghai was delayed a few hours…
I had the hardest time choosing my “A Lovely Year of Finishes” Goal for May and then I realized that it only made sense to choose the one that I already had everything I needed to finish. So even though this isn’t my oldest UFO/WIP, I’m going to be working on my One Big Cabin quilt that I completed the…
March is going to be a very busy sewing and quilting month for me as I work away on my secret Tree Bird Blog Hop project. I can’t show you the actual bird fabric that I ended up choosing but I can give you a sneak peek at the other fabrics that I’m using in the project. Aren’t those luscious! …
I got a lot of TV watching done while I was hand sewing the binding to the back of the Paper Pinwheel Lap Quilt and Bed Runner. Monday night we watched the entire first season of Broadchurch. We hadn’t intended to watch all eight episodes but the writers of the first season were masters of the cliff hanger ending! And…
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…