Yearly Archives: 2018

40 posts

Quickly zipped up

Remember the zippers I showed you yesterday? I made some cute little bags with a few of them today. I adapted a pattern I found online, though I changed a couple of measurements and quilted Soft and Stable to the pieces instead of using interfacing; I much prefer the body […]

Here a zipper, there a zipper …

I had this brilliant idea to make a couple of small zippered bags, using some of the pretty zippers that are available these days. When I explored where to find them, I discovered that it was cheaper to buy a lot of them than to buy just a couple, so that’s […]

Pausing at the borders

As planned, I’ve finished adding the borders to La Vie Est Belle, and I’m taking a bit of a break to get some other things accomplished before beginning the quilting. That will give me time to think about how I want to quilt it — deciding that always takes me […]

Heading for the border(s)

Whew! The major part of the piecing on this quilt is now done! The next part will be to add the borders, of course, and then I may put the top away temporarily and do something else for some variety before beginning the quilting. Naturally, given my “waffly” mind, the […]

Ready for the next step

Believe it or not, I’m still working on La Vie Est Belle, though the lack of posts lately may not have made that very obvious. 😉 At any rate, I now have all of the major blocks put together as squares, each one a combination of a star center and […]