Geta makes the most beautiful quilted items, and she’s giving away the pattern for her little quilted pockets,like the one pictured here: Just go to her site and leave a comment for a chance to win! 🙂
A friend of mine shared a recipe for oatmeal cookies, so I took some time off from embellishing today to bake them. Yum!! I think these may be the best I’ve ever had. I don’t know if any will be left after my grandchildren come sample them, so I took […]
I’m making a little progress on this embellishing thing. 😉 I actually thought I was finished with this section, until I realized that the little French knots I’d used in the white section at the top simply don’t show. I’m going to need to do something more there, and I […]
Before I go any further, let me say that I’m definitely not an embellisher. I admire lots of embellished quilts — especially crazy quilts — but I’m not comfortable doing embellishing myself. It’s been a real stretch for me the past two years when our guild challenge has mandated embellishing, […]
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 […]