Yearly Archives: 2022

22 posts

Gemstone quilt block

Last week our local quilt guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada, hosted award-winning quilter MJ Kinman for a wonderful lecture at our quarterly meeting, followed by two days of classes. I took one of the classes, Bite-Size Gems, where we learned how to “translate” a picture of a gemstone into a […]

Saguaro against the sky

Saguaro quilt

It’s finished! Yay! I used swirls in most of the background — and there’s a lot of background in this quilt — hoping to suggest the blowing wind. By the time I’d finished them, I was royally tired of swirls! I quilted the saguaro itself with straight-ish lines interrupted by […]

Chouchou exits the doggie door

Oops!

Time really does fly when you’re having fun, doesn’t it? Not long after my last post, my husband and I took off for a couple of weeks on a Mediterranean cruise, beginning with several days in Barcelona and ending in Venice. The cruise was wonderful, as usual, and we enjoyed […]

Saguaro quilting in progress

Saguaro, part 2

Omigosh! I can hardly believe that it’s been over a month since I last posted! In my defense, I’ve been busy with family things and general life “stuff”. I’m still working — slowly — on the saguaro quilt, though. It’s all pieced and sandwiched, and my quilting is in progress. […]

small scissor case

Small scissor case

I need to get some backing fabric and batting for the quilt top I finished last night, but in the meantime I saw an article on the Bernina site on making a small scissor case with the embroidery module. Hmmm. I’m planning to go to a quilt retreat later this […]

Saguaro quilt top

Saguaro

Wow! I hadn’t really noticed how long it’s been since I’ve written a blog post, but here we go. I made a quilt top that I’ve decided I don’t like. I have it all sandwiched and ready to quilt, but I can’t seem to get to the quilting, since I […]