So imagine the grumbling when I told my 12yr old daughter that we’d have a sewing lesson last Friday! I gave her the option of doing a zippered pouch, a string tie bag or something like that. She then suggested an owl bag, but I vetoed that because it’s on the embroidery machine and doesn’t …
Solveig was invited to a classmate’s birthday party last weekend and just like her, this girl is into the Warrior book series (it’s about clans of cats) so we came up with a portfolio for her, I appliqued a calico cat by Accuquilt and used embrilliance to applique it down and embroider her name too. …
I can’t believe it’s July 1st already! Here’s my June review of completed items/blocks A dress for Sonja Women of the bible block Kitschy BOM 2 portfolios for my kids teachers pin cushion for swap another Women of the bible BOW Red and white quilt challenge quilt Swoon block Women of the bible BOW Tote …
My kids asked me to make portfolios for the teachers this year, and after asking them what their favorite colors are, both teachers replied purple. So I picked these purple floral pastel fabrics. We had to go get some more note pads and now we could only get them in yellow, then my son also …
I finished the Celtic solstice blocks for clue #3 ( I swapped red instead of orange) I whipped up some portfolios before the weekend, my friend wanted to get some of the small stuff for the Elem. School’s craft fair (which I normally plan with her, but couldn’t attend this time with the studio tour) …
My Last post mentioned that my son had the stomach bug tuesday with throwing up and “D”, well I got it thursday! NO FUN… especially being pregnant…. woke up with it thursday morning at 3am and pretty much puked hourly until 11, then just rested the rest of the day and friday. thursday I didn’t …
So many little things to show! First: the MUG rugs are DONE 🙂 they turned out really cute, though I had to EXPLAIN to my husband what it was and that you can put a MUG/cup on it and a snack etc on the side… I told you I would make another owl and portfolio …
mug rugs, owl and portfolio and cookies are done and EQ ideas, orca progress Read More »
Wanted to show what I did today, or rather finished, well sort of. I finished quilting this cat quilt I really get inspired by leah day and her filler designs and always want to try something new. This one is inspired by her echo shell designs http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2009/08/day-6-echo-shell.html First I actually browsed her designs and saw …
I’m getting back into the quilting groove after my tooth infection/ whatever it was. these are a sampler of some of the kits I’ve made, I figured I needed a girly one! I actually sat yesterday and tranfered the block from accuquilt to EQ7, I thought I had them somewhere, but it wasn’t all of …
finally I can show my little projects I’ve been working on. gifts for my kids teachers, they got them yesterday at both classroom parties. the owls were from a fons and porter quilt magazine from december 2010 I think, the portfolios I got the pattern as part of a kit from connecting threads, and the …