Quilting category

  • #67 – Dining Room Turned Into Quilting Studio

    I’ve taken over the dining room table for my quilting these days. I do have a craft room upstairs in a little room off our bedroom but I don’t currently have enough table space to make qui...
    Mar 08, 2010 3 Comments

  • #64 – Layout

    Today I finished cutting out all the squares for my second quilt. I’m calling this quilt the Bluebird of Happiness Quilt which will become clearer later on. I laid all the squares out & the...
    Mar 05, 2010 2 Comments

  • #61 – First Quilt – Finished!

    I think I hand sewed for 8 hours but my first quilt is finished! I’m very proud of it despite all the mistakes. I’ve been wanting to learn to quilt for quite awhile so it feels good to act...
    Mar 02, 2010 6 Comments

  • #60 – 400+ inches of binding

    Spent the day making binding & attaching it to the quilt today. It was easier than expected. I used this tutorial from Heather Bailey for making my binding because I wanted to do the joins on the...
    Mar 01, 2010 No Comments

  • #59 – Fabric Prep

    Spent some time today preparing the fabric for my quilt binding & for my next quilt top. Washing, drying, ironing & cutting off all those annoying strings that get so tangled in the first tw...
    Feb 28, 2010 1 Comment

  • #58 – I Have a Problem

    Yes, I did go buy fabric for another quilt top. No, I am not finished with my first quilt yet. Yes, I have plans for at least three other quilts for my sister’s new cabin. There’s no probl...
    Feb 27, 2010 2 Comments

  • #57 – Quilted

    I think I’m getting faster at this because work today & my quilted is completely quilted. I spent a lot less time ripping out that the last couple of days. Either I’m getting better o...
    Feb 26, 2010 3 Comments

  • #55 – Success

    Yesterday, I had such bad time trying to free motion quilt but I wasn’t ready to give up. I set it aside overnight & went at it today with a fresh attitude. It helped to read that a lot of ...
    Feb 24, 2010 4 Comments

  • #54 – Quilting Frustration

    Today after lots of practice on my “mini quilt” I started to quilt my actual quilt. Everything was going along pretty well, it wasn’t perfect but I was starting to get the hang of it...
    Feb 23, 2010 5 Comments

  • #52 – Practice

    This week we will actually start machine quilting our quilts. I have never quilted & have a new sewing machine so I thought some practice would be in order. I made myself a little practice quilt ...
    Feb 21, 2010 1 Comment