I’m debating my next quilt project — decisions, decisions! — and finding things to create while I debate with myself. I ran into a sale at Embroidery Library and saw a design for a pin cushion that I thought was adorable. It’s available in three sizes (each a separate purchase), […]
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I have a “thing” about pin cushions. Somehow I can’t seem to pass up many of them, and this time, thanks to a generous gift from my friend Phyl, I combined that addiction with a desire to experiment with some of Sue Spargo’s embroidery. I’ve done a tiny bit of […]
The ladies at my local quilt group really liked the biscornu cushion that I made some time back, so they asked me to teach them the biscornu technique. To get ready for yesterday’s session for that, I made another pin cushion, and then I also made another “shell” of one, but […]
I’ve been MIA for a bit longer than I’d realized! I’ve been working on a new quilt (what else is new?), and that leads me to today’s post. No, not the new quilt, but related …. A few months ago, I showed you a new pin cushion I’d hand embroidered. […]
I don’t know why I’m so intrigued by the biscornu construction, and I also don’t know why I like pin cushions so much. At the moment, I have at least nine pin cushions, and that’s not counting the ones I’ve made and given away! At any rate, my local […]
Now that the holiday party for our quilt group is over, I can show the things I made for our gift exchange. I had a lot of fun looking for things I wanted to make that would be quilt-related, and I settled on three small items. First, there was this […]