Time has slipped past me while playing with our new dog and having a fun trip to the Houston show, but I have two new quilts to post here, neither of which is my usual “stuff”. First of all, while I absolutely love free-motion quilting, I’ve been wondering what it […]
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About a week ago, I posted the first part of a little quilt I’d begun in a class. Since that time, I’ve finished that top, as well as a second one. Unfortunately, I don’t particularly like the results, so I doubt that I’ll actually finish them. Here’s the first one, […]
It’s finished! Yay! I used swirls in most of the background — and there’s a lot of background in this quilt — hoping to suggest the blowing wind. By the time I’d finished them, I was royally tired of swirls! I quilted the saguaro itself with straight-ish lines interrupted by […]
Omigosh! I can hardly believe that it’s been over a month since I last posted! In my defense, I’ve been busy with family things and general life “stuff”. I’m still working — slowly — on the saguaro quilt, though. It’s all pieced and sandwiched, and my quilting is in progress. […]
Wow! I hadn’t really noticed how long it’s been since I’ve written a blog post, but here we go. I made a quilt top that I’ve decided I don’t like. I have it all sandwiched and ready to quilt, but I can’t seem to get to the quilting, since I […]
I love tea and drink a small pot of it almost every morning while reading my email. The tea cozy I use for the holiday season is over ten years old, and the one I use the rest of the year is even older, so I decided that it was […]