My goodness! That jelly roll I bought has enough strips left for one more batch of these cute stockings (with several strips left over afterwards!), but I may be “stocking-ed out” at this point. 😉 I’m not sure this particular jelly roll was quite as traditionally colored as I’d thought […]
Quilting
I’m in Phoenix right now, staying with a good friend and taking a couple of classes at a retreat called Quilting in the Desert. This is my third year doing that, and it’s such fun! It’s put on by the same people who organize Quilt Camp in the Pines each […]
Before the holidays, I’d meant to make some very small Christmas stockings to hold little things, but then I got the flu. Oh well. I’ve finished three of them now, with a few left to finish before next Christmas. They’re about 9 3/4″ tall, with the patchwork made of 1″ […]
Yesterday I finished binding and washing the table runner I’ve been working on sporadically. Here’s a photo of the whole thing, though it’s hard to see the quilting in this shot. In case you didn’t see the in-progress photos, this is the result of a “play day” with paint sticks […]
I’ve mentioned that I’m going to make a new quilt for our bed, and I’m planning to use the Winding Ways pattern. Since this pattern is all curved piecing, I thought I’d better make a practice block or two. I used leftovers from the table runner, which is almost finished, […]
My dryer is finally fixed, so I’m running my laundry from several days ago through the wash again and then through the dryer. While that’s going on, I’m quilting my table runner. 🙂 I’ve now finished one entire block’s feathers and am fairly happy with how the block looks. Two […]