The past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to complete a major Christmas project. I had purchased the flannel for the project from Hancock Fabrics a week or so ago but when I went to iron it to get it ready to use, I discovered several flaws in the fabric itself. So I had to make a trip to Hancock’s…
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.…
Last night during the FNSI, I didn’t get as far along with the Disappearing Nine Patch quilt blocks as I had hoped. Things came up during the week and I didn’t get all the blocks sewn together until late Friday afternoon. Most of Friday evening was then spent pressing and cutting apart the nine patch blocks. Here is what the…
Back in April, Amandajean from Crazy Mom Quilts started a one-a-day quilt along, in which participants would complete one 9 patch quilt block per day resulting, at the end of 10 weeks, with 70 finished scrappy 9 patch blocks. I soon discovered that I didn’t have nearly enough fabric scraps to make a truly scrappy quilt as I had purged…
This week Amanda Jean over at crazy mom quilts posted the first block of her latest quilt-a-long. Even though I haven’t finished the last quilt-a-long, I’ve decided to take part in this one. I haven’t had a chance to complete this week’s block but if you’re visiting through the link in Amanda Jean’s side-bar, I thought I’d share this bit…