With today being National Quilting Day, I wanted to work on something quilty when I joined the ladies from around the world last night for the virtual sewing bee, Friday Night Sew In; currently being hosted by Wendy from Sugarlane Quilts. I already have quite a few large quilt projects in various stages of completion, the most recent of which…
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…
Tonight is Friday Night Sew In; the monthly virtual sewing bee co-hosted by Heidi from Handmade by Heidi and Bobbi over at Crafty Vegas Mom. For last month’s sew in I had planned to work on my version of the 10 minute table runner but by the time I got done figuring out how to sew this little purse onto…
I didn’t get the table runners done, but I did manage to get the little clutch purse finished. Earlier in the week, when I was cutting out the pattern pieces for the purse so that they’d be ready for Friday night, I decided I should take some scrap fabric and make a test of the pattern. Good thing I did…
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…
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…
Well… last night’s sewing session for this month’s Friday Night Sew In started out really well.  I was so pleased to find that I only had to trim just the tiniest of slivers off my blocks to square them up to 13.5”.   Giving myself a little imaginary pat on the back, I thought to myself, “Sue, I think you’ve finally…
I’ve been trying to use up my stash of fabric and fabric scraps because there is likely a move in our not too distant future and the less I have to pack, the better. I don’t have a large stash because I’ve done this every time we’ve moved for the last 11 years. Before that the military moved us and…
Heidi, one of the wonderful ladies who co-host the Friday Night Sew In, drew numbers of all those who signed up for last Friday’s Sew In and I won! The prize is a cute little FNSI pin cushion that Heidi made and a four pack of beautiful Verna fat quarters. I’m already thinking up things I can make with them.…