Yearly Archives: 2010

100 posts

Better late than never

Before the holidays, I’d meant to make some very small Christmas stockings to hold little things, but then I got the flu. Oh well. I’ve finished three of them now, with a few left to finish before next Christmas. They’re about 9 3/4″ tall, with the patchwork made of 1″ […]

Finished!

Yesterday I finished binding and washing the table runner I’ve been working on sporadically. Here’s a photo of the whole thing, though it’s hard to see the quilting in this shot. In case you didn’t see the in-progress photos, this is the result of a “play day” with paint sticks […]

Practice

I’ve mentioned that I’m going to make a new quilt for our bed, and I’m planning to use the Winding Ways pattern. Since this pattern is all curved piecing, I thought I’d better make a practice block or two. I used leftovers from the table runner, which is almost finished, […]

Progress …

My dryer is finally fixed, so I’m running my laundry from several days ago through the wash again and then through the dryer. While that’s going on, I’m quilting my table runner. 🙂 I’ve now finished one entire block’s feathers and am fairly happy with how the block looks. Two […]

Feathers!

Have I mentioned yet that I love feathers? I love seeing them on quilts, and I love quilting them myself. Today I finished doing the outlining of the little painted motifs on the table runner I’m working on, so that means I was finally allowed to put the first feather […]

Shopping!

The quilt I currently have on our bed (this one) is almost seven years old and showing its age; the fabric is beginning to split. That’s doubly sad, since I don’t really enjoy making enormous quilts. 😉 However, I’ve wanted to make a Winding Ways quilt for some time, so […]