It’s finished — finally! I’d pieced this top ages ago and was “stuck” on how to quilt it until Lisa Calle came to my rescue with some suggestions. It was mostly ruler work, which was a challenge on my lovely Bernina 790Pro — a domestic machine. That involves pushing the […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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I made this quilt top several months ago and then waffled forever (as usual for me) about how I wanted to machine quilt it, finally getting some ideas from Lisa Calle, whose work is amazing. I have to say that I really love free-motion work (especially feathers), though I have […]
I had intended to make a single block of this design each month as a take-along project for sewing days sponsored by our local guild. However, once I had all of the blocks done — many of them done at home when I simply couldn’t resist working on. them — […]
What can I say? I was on a roll and just couldn’t wait to see how each of these little birds would turn out. So here are the final five birds, all ready to be combined into a quilt top! My Bernina has really had a workout in the past […]
I’ve been having so much fun making the various different paper-pieced bird blocks designed by WonderFil last year that I haven’t been able to stop. I’d originally planned to work on them *only* at the monthly (more or less) sewing days sponsored by the local guild, but I keep making […]
My “bird project” is supposed to be something I’ll work on during sewing days sponsored by my guild. Somehow, though, I just couldn’t resist making the third in the series at home a few days ago — and it’s a very good thing I did! The designs are paper pieced, […]