It’s been a couple of weeks, but I do have a little update on the progress of my current quilt. I’d finished all of the outlining and had decided to do diagonal lines around the red diamonds in the text blocks. After that was done, I realized that the filler […]
Embroidery
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I’ve been a fan of Havel’s scissors for some time — at least partly because they have a selection of different styles of left-handed scissors. You wouldn’t believe the difference it makes to a left-handed person to have scissors that are specifically for us! Turning right-handed scissors upside down doesn’t […]
Last summer, the San Francisco Stitch Company posted weekly machine embroidery blocks. I downloaded each one and made it, thinking that the blocks would be good practice for me. Who knew the blocks would also be so cute? 🙂 I had to put the finished top aside for a time while […]
One of the projects I’ve wanted to get done had to be complete before the holiday season sneaks up on me. 😉 Every year we give our grandchildren a new Christmas ornament; it’s a “tradition” I began with our daughters when they were young. This year I came across patterns for some […]
Okay, I can’t take a photo of the entire ‘Tis the Season quilt top, but I took four photos of the four different “quarters” of it. Here they are, and you’ll just have to imagine how they actually look as a whole piece ;).  Did I mention that there are just […]
Two days ago I finished the embroidery on ‘Tis the Season. So why am I frustrated? Because I don’t have any way to take a photo of the completed top! LOL! My house is fairly small, and without a hanging sleeve on a finished quilt, I simply have nowhere to lay […]