Quilting category

  • April Showers Stitch Along Finished!

    I’ve just taken the last stitch on the binding and can show you my finished April Showers Stitch Along.Here is the close up of the embroidery. I used french knots for the rain. I’m not com...
    Apr 22, 2011 No Comments

  • April Showers Stitch Along Part 2

    Last week I cut out the pieces for the applique & background for the April Showers Stitch Along. Now was the time to put it all together. First, I started with the background.I pretty much follow...
    Apr 10, 2011 5 Comments

  • April Showers Stitch Along

    A couple months ago the Feeling Stitch blog started a weekly stitch along. I’ve been wanted to play along but just haven’t seemed to have had the time until now. This months pattern just s...
    Apr 07, 2011 4 Comments

  • Quilting Class

    Tonight was the last of my traditional quilting techniques classes. No one finished their quilt but we all got them pieced & into a quilt sandwich.Here was all are showing them off (excuse the sl...
    Mar 29, 2011 3 Comments

  • Learning to Hand Quilt

    We are getting into the final stretch of my traditional quilting techniques class. Last week everyone in the class helped pin baste my quilt & it was time for me to start hand quilting. I was not...
    Mar 20, 2011 1 Comment

  • Oh, so close

    All the square are done for my quilting class, yeah! Now is the fun of hand sewing them together & sewing on the border. It’s a little tricky as the squares did not all come out the exact 1...
    Mar 11, 2011 4 Comments

  • How Does Your Garden Grow?

    Ok, I am addicted to working on my hexagon flower quilt. I kind of rushed right in & started sewing flowers together only to find out my layout was going to leave some weird open hexagons. So, I c...
    Mar 07, 2011 3 Comments

  • Another block down

    One more hand pieced square done for my tradition quilting techniques class. This one is called squares & triangles. The trick is to make sure the point of the triangles hits the center of the st...
    Mar 01, 2011 No Comments

  • All about the brights

    Seems like my new quilts in progress are all about the brights. First we went & picked out the fabrics for Matt’s lego quilt. We didn’t even think about taking legos with us to match ...
    Feb 28, 2011 6 Comments

  • Just some random quilting stuff…

    My next quilt, after the one for my class of course, is going to be a Lego quilt for Matt. He & I love to spend a snowy afternoon sitting in front of the fire building with Legos, yes, we are adu...
    Feb 25, 2011 1 Comment