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. …
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…
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…
I’ve been going through my UFOs/WIPs trying to decide which to put on the list of my 2015 Finish Along Q2 Goals and I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and add them all! As it states in the Finish Along rules: “You won’t be punished if you don’t finish your entire list, so feel free to make a…
For the past few days, I’ve been busy free motion quilting (fmqing) and binding the second set of placemats that were part of my 2015 Finish Along Q1 Goals. They were also my March Goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. One of the quilts I intend to finish over the next couple of months is this one: I ordered…
Getting this quilt top sewn together and then photographed turned into a bit of an adventure. Katherine over at Sew Me Something Good recently shared beautiful photographs she’d taken of her maple leaf quilt while on a fall nature walk. The whole time I was piecing the quilt I showed you on Wednesday I kept thinking of a creative place…
Back in the spring when we were staying in the hotel, I started work on a quilt kit for One Big Cabin by Row House Creations When we moved from the hotel into our apartment it got packed up and didn’t get worked on again until this past weekend. Before it got packed away, I had chosen to blanket stitch…