I’ve completed my three planned Dresden Plates and attached them to the quilt sandwich. In Susan Cleveland’s technique, they are attached to the entire quilt sandwich at this point, rather than just to the quilt top. Now I’m beginning the quilting! So far, I’m not quite sure what I’m going […]
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Let me get this out of the way from the start: I love my Bernina 790+ sewing machine. I often say that someone would have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. However, it does have one disadvantage: it’s really heavy! In the past, I’ve opted not to participate […]
First of all, I have to eat my words. Referring back to October and the whim that led me to enter a quilt into the Road to California show, a few days after I’d sent in that entry, I also was notified that the AQS show in Paducah was also […]
Yesterday our local quilt guild had a bus trip to the wonderful Road to California show — over and back all in one day. We all had a great time, with lots of laughter and chatter all the way. We had done a similar thing ten years ago, when I […]
Last week our local quilt guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada, hosted award-winning quilter MJ Kinman for a wonderful lecture at our quarterly meeting, followed by two days of classes. I took one of the classes, Bite-Size Gems, where we learned how to “translate” a picture of a gemstone into a […]
The San Francisco Stitch Company has lots of wonderful designs available, and I’ve made some of them in the past — all with no problems at all, as was the case here. They recently released the beginning of a monthly series of designs for mug rugs, though the designs could […]