Embroidery

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Center done!

I’ve had some other calls on my time this past week, but today I trimmed up all of the rest of the blocks and sashing strips that I’d made for the embroidered quilt I started in class last week. Then I got them all put together into a 40.5″ square. […]

‘Tis the Season

I’ve just returned from a wonderful class at the Bernina Connection in Phoenix. 🙂 My quilt buddy, Phyl, invited me to stay with her, and we always have a great time together! The class was taught by Claudia Dinnell, who does wonderful digitized embroidery patterns. The pattern we did is […]

Back to the “road trip”

Earlier this summer, I’d been making some embroidered blocks, released weekly here.Two more blocks were released while I was away, and I was able to download the files then. Two more blocks were released as I was returning home, so now I have all nine blocks made and waiting. Waiting […]

More summer activity

Remember this post from almost two weeks ago? The weekly blocks keep coming, so I’ve done two more since then. The first was the car in which the participants would “ride” to the various destinations, and the second took us to Boston. The third came out a week ago and […]

Summer activity

Things are heating up here in the desert; we’ve been in triple digits for weeks now, with no relief in sight. Luckily, air conditioning is everywhere here: cars, homes, stores, theaters. In fact, I usually have to take a light sweater with me to many places, since the AC gets […]

Gingerbread House

I’m still very new at doing machine embroidery, but some months ago I bought a pattern for an adorable gingerbread house. It took me a while to begin working on it, but it’s finally finished. It’s anything but perfect, but I still think it’s cute. The various pieces started out […]