I’ve been working very slowly on the quilting for La Vie Est Belle, and I’m almost finished with the New York Beauty blocks. But once that’s done, I’m still puzzled as to what I’m going to do around the little stars in the spaces between the NYB blocks. <sigh> I’ve […]
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My sewing room has been put into “shrink” mode so that I can begin the quilting on my most recent project. LOL! I needed to extend the back leaf of my table to support the quilt’s bulk, so the room is suddenly about two feet narrower than usual, and moving […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the things I’m working on while pondering which motifs to use in quilting my latest quilt has been the embroidered nativity set below (click on the photo to enlarge it, as always). I will be getting some tiny lights for it so that it becomes a three-part light […]
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 […]