Rulers — can we quilters ever have enough of them? Naturally, we could all probably get along with a minimal number, but sometimes a ruler or set of rulers comes along that just makes life nicer and easier. The ones I’m talking about today are sort of comparable to Susan […]
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Remember this post? Since then, I made the painful decision to redo that border, so I bought more red fabric for the narrow strips and more white for the background. This time everything seems to have gone much better, as the fabric didn’t bleed as I spritzed out the blue […]
I’ve been working on my appliqué project from the Karen Kay Buckley class I took at the Phoenix AQS show earlier this month. I finished the center block by hand and then began work on the outer border, which has seventeen quarter-inch strips applied to each of the four sides […]
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend my very first AQS quilt show; this was the one held in Phoenix. I stayed with my very good friend, and we had *such* a good time — as usual. HandworkAt any rate, I took two classes while there. […]
Friday I was lucky enough to have been able to take a free-motion quilting class from Cindy Needham. She’s most famous for her quilts made from old linens, and we saw lots of those at Thursday evening’s guild meeting — they’re drop-dead gorgeous! But linens aren’t something I have hanging […]
Sometimes people are just so awfully nice! One of the ladies in the quilt group I belong to gave me a Christmas gift today, completely unexpectedly. (Aren’t those the best kind?) Look what she gave me: Aren’t they beautiful? I love scissors and have more than a few pairs, but […]