A couple of months ago I posted some embroidered Christmas tree blocks I was making. I’ve made a little progress since then, but it’s been slow. I’d love to blame that on the vacation we took or the work involved in getting new tile laid in the house, but in […]
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You may not believe it, after all this time, but I’ve finally finished ‘Tis the Season! While I didn’t get it done before last Christmas, it’s ready and waiting for the next one. To recap the “story”, I took a class from Claudia Dinnell, whose design I’d seen and loved. The […]
…of the tunnel is in sight! I began this quilt, ‘Tis the Season, in August, but I’ve had delays and dry spells galore. However, yesterday I added the corded piping and binding to the completed top, and now I’m doing the hand stitching on the binding. Of course, there’s still […]
My quilt guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada, is holding its local show this weekend, and I worked at the admissions desk all day yesterday. During a quick break, I was able to go visit the three quilts I’d entered into the competition: Strolling at Lake Havasu, Double-Pointed Dresden Plate, and Moon […]
It’s been a while! I’ve been distracted from my current quilt for a time, but I’m getting back to it now. Why was I distracted? It was a combination of the usual things that happen in a family to keep us busy and a trip to Phoenix for the recent […]
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 […]