Some time back, I posted a few pictures of some embroidered blocks from San Francisco Stitch Co. I was making two sets of the larger (4″) blocks and one set of the 2″ blocks to use in three small quilts. The 2″ blocks are now a quilt top (not pictured […]
Free motion quilting
Desert Quilters of Nevada has just wrapped up our annual show, where I spent several days either looking or working — I was in charge of hanging the smaller quilts and then taking them down again. The show itself was lovely, as usual; there were lots of gorgeous quilts and […]
Oops! It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything here, but time has just slipped by. I’m still working on a Christmas project with embroidered blocks from the San Francisco Stitch Company, part of which project you can see here. In addition, I’m also knitting a cardigan to use during […]
I’m going to be taking an online class soon, and part of the prep work was to quilt a reasonably large piece of fabric prior to cutting it into smaller pieces for the various steps of the class. Rather than doing one type of quilting over the entire surface — […]
While in Houston last fall, I ran across this pattern and simply couldn’t resist! The expressions on the faces are just delightful, so the pattern came home with me. I pretty much followed the colors as given on the pattern, since I wasn’t really sure what colors llamas really are, […]
I’ve just finished this quilt, called Dresden Neighborhood, but I think it should probably be called “Cursed”! 😉 I’d bought some lovely scraps of Cherrywood fabrics to use for the houses, but the scraps were so small that I didn’t want to wash them and risk ending up with a […]