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 […]
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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 […]
… the quilting on a new quilt is always fun! 🙂 This one is simply a panel with added borders — very basic, as it will see very hard use as a nap quilt when our youngest grandchild (our only granddaughter) goes to preschool next fall. I’m going to outline […]
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 […]
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″ […]