I’m making progress on finishing up my paper-pieced bird quilt, which is a very good thing, as I’m planning to give it as a birthday gift in a couple of weeks. Whew! Since the birds were designed with pieces to represent branches and leaves, I’m quilting the background with lots […]
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What can I say? I was on a roll and just couldn’t wait to see how each of these little birds would turn out. So here are the final five birds, all ready to be combined into a quilt top! My Bernina has really had a workout in the past […]
I’ve been having so much fun making the various different paper-pieced bird blocks designed by WonderFil last year that I haven’t been able to stop. I’d originally planned to work on them *only* at the monthly (more or less) sewing days sponsored by the local guild, but I keep making […]
A couple of years ago, when I traded in my lovely Bernina 790Plus in favor of the Bernina 790Pro , the only thing I was a bit sad about was losing the beautiful “skin” I’d purchased for it. Unfortunately, the lady who had been making a wide variety of skins […]
I haven’t been very productive lately; I was busy getting ready for the holidays, and I’ve had trouble deciding what my next project would be. However, last fall my local quilt group decided to do a BOM, and we all downloaded the directions from A Quilting Life for their 2024 […]
Some time ago (August, I think), I showed a couple of photos of the free-motion quilting I was doing on a lap-sized quilt. I’ve just realized that I never showed the finished quilt! Oops! This is the quilt, which measures 63″ x 72″; it’s a design by Lo & Behold […]