Biscornu is the name of a specific type of pin cushion, and it really intrigued me when I saw the instructions. It starts out as two squares of fabric, but it ends up having eight sides! The more traditional ones have counted cross stitch as the squares, but they can […]
Quilting
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I’ve finally found time to baste my quilt sandwich, so last night I began the quilting by doing the stitching in the ditch to stabilize things. Does anyone really like stitching in the ditch? The process, I mean. I like the effect, of course; but I really dislike actually doing […]
My local group is swapping signature blocks, and I thought it might be fun to show how simple they are to make. There are lots of different patterns around, but this is the one we’re using — and it could have been paper pieced, if you’d prefer. 1. For a […]
In all of my excitement about Jennie Rayment’s class and lecture, I almost forgot that our guild challenge took place on the same night as her lecture. I’d made this miniature (3″ blocks) using the two required fabrics, one of which was yellow dots on red and the other green […]
The top is finished! 🙂 I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, though it’s really difficult to tell that I have some metallic fabrics in the center of each “star” — they tend to have glare, even when I don’t use a flash to take the photo. I’m going […]
Remember those blocks I posted from the Jennie Rayment class? I’ve finished four of them now and the pieced border and am doing the machine stitching to curve the pieces of that border. You can see the curves on some of the pieces and the straight edges on some of […]