Last Sunday, I posted that I was closing in on finishing the 4th of July picnic quilt that I started last summer. A large part of Sunday afternoon was spent sitting out in the screened in porch enjoying the beautiful weather and hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt. Once I lost the light, I moved inside…
As I mentioned on Monday, all I needed to do was add the borders and my 4th of July picnic quilt top would be complete. I got the narrow border in Kona Snow added yesterday and I finished adding the second border in the feature fabric this morning. I really, really like how it turned out. And I’m so…
Yesterday afternoon, I spent the afternoon sewing the blocks for my Independence Day picnic quilt. This is proving to be a fun, easy quilt to make. I started sewing blocks around noon and finished pressing the last block about 5:30. With a break for a late lunch and to go grocery shopping, I’d say it took about 4 hours to…
When traveling I like to break up a long road trip by stopping in at quilt shops along the way, so on the first leg of our trip back up to Canada, we stopped into Mammaw’s Thimble in Knoxville, TN. I’d stopped in there once before on one of our trips and was impressed with the wide selection of quilt…