After a longish break, I’m back to working on my ‘Tis the Season quilt. It’s been ready for the quilting since before Christmas, but I’d put it off until now. There’s not a lot of progress to see at this point, but I’m making strides in getting all of the […]
Free motion quilting
I’ve been away for almost a week and haven’t been able to do any quilting, embroidery or knitting while I was gone. However, today was different! 🙂 A very kind person, whose name I don’t want to reveal without permission, loaned me a Westalee ruler foot to play with and […]
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 […]
Several years ago my husband and I took our first cruise, going to several islands in the Eastern Caribbean. Just over a year ago, I took another cruise to the same area, this time a quilting cruise with several friends. During that cruise I bought three small pieces of fabric […]
As I was working on the project I last showed you, it suddenly occurred to me that it would work very well in my granddaughter’s bedroom! Even better, her birthday is coming up this Friday, so I now had a deadline to work towards — and I made it. 🙂 Of course, […]
I’ve had a difficult time getting going on a new project, but a couple of days ago I ran across a kit for a very small dresser scarf; I’d hidden it away a few years ago for future use. IÂ decided that the mindless piecing involved would be a good way […]