I’m making a little progress on this embellishing thing. 😉 I actually thought I was finished with this section, until I realized that the little French knots I’d used in the white section at the top simply don’t show. I’m going to need to do something more there, and I […]
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Before I go any further, let me say that I’m definitely not an embellisher. I admire lots of embellished quilts — especially crazy quilts — but I’m not comfortable doing embellishing myself. It’s been a real stretch for me the past two years when our guild challenge has mandated embellishing, […]
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″ […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]