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 […]
Quilting
A couple of days ago, our guild sponsored a visit and lecture from the delightfully funny and knowledgeable Jennie Rayment. If you’ve never had a chance to hear her speak or take a class from her, you can consider yourself deprived. 😉 I was lucky enough to be able to […]
I’ve finished the nap quilt for our granddaughter to take to preschool next fall. 🙂 You may wonder why I hurried to finish it when there is still lots of time before she’ll need it. It’s because — like many quilters — I have several projects in the works and […]
About a week ago, I posted that I had begun the quilting on a nap quilt for our youngest grandchild, as she will be going to preschool in the fall. Today I finished the quilting and will now be able to bind the quilt, ready for our granddaughter’s birthday. 🙂 […]
Judy Martin has created a video on how to rotary cut unusual shapes. Most of us can handle rectangles/squares or triangles, but those odd shapes can be a bit of a challenge. This video explains as well as any I’ve seen how to approach the problem, though I think I […]
A fellow quilter here in my area recently passed away. She had belonged to my local group for a time until she became too ill to participate. I didn’t think I’d made a big impression on her, but I had a phone call from a good friend of hers last […]