I started quilting my Persian Star quilt last week and it’s SLOW going, because I’m doing some DENSE work! I have this fun spiral star template that I rarely use, so I figured I’d try it again, I marked the center in X and + and quilted around the template once then turned 45 degrees …
I’ve been working on blocks for my local quilt guild for BOM’s for next year, I just get one month as my block and the other ladies will vote on which block to use…. anyways, as I was making these blocks to show them I thought of a block swap here? What do you think? …
I’ve been sewing White and Blue lately- matching the snow right now!! This is a girl dress for a friend at church, my daughter is invited to her birthday party Saturday. I embroidered her initial on the front. This morning I finished the border for this Persian Star quilt! THEN!!!! it started snowing, after a …
The other day I went to walmart to get a few gifts for the kids (mostly clothes) as most of the FUN toys, we buy on amazon…. Carol at funthreads posted the other day about some towels she embroidered- with an adorable snowflake design WHICH I got on a pin cushion from her BTW… So …
I’ve been doing both some Thanksgiving AND Black Friday sewing First let me show you what I got in the mail on Wednesday from Carol @ funthreads, a winter pin cushion and a mini owl ring pin cushions, both really cute! THANKS (there’s still time to sign up for my pin cushion swap for Dec/Jan) …
The star block swap is done! The rest of the blocks got here at the middle of last week and I repackaged them and sent them out at the end of the week. Click here if you want to see how it’s made We were 6 participants, so everyone made 2 for each person and …
I finished the last of the persian star blocks for the block swap! woohoo 12 total. Due at the end of the month here, heard someone else already sent her blocks, so I felt I had to rush on these last 3 also Here’s the 6 sets of 2 What the layout would be. I …
I finished another persian star block, so I think I have 3 or 4 left now, only 2 weeks (well a bit more since I’m the hostess) Meanwhile Sonja got BIG yellow bear from her brother. sniff sniff, he’s too big for bear now… He also gave her his other yellow bear which was his …
Have you started any Christmas projects yet? I decided to FINALLY work on this irregular tree skirt I made maybe 2 yrs ago. I designed it in EQ and it was for a challenge about quilts without borders! So while working on other blocks I made a scrappy backing and got it all on the …
This week’s posts had all been pre-scheduled So I figured I’d do a post with just misc photos of what we’ve been up to. At the end of last week, my friend (who quilts!) and I took the kids after school to a new park and played on this playground AND went geo-caching! I haven’t …