I’ve started another project, but this one is proving to be a bit more time-consuming than I’d anticipated. I’ve done a few little free-standing embroidered appliqué projects, but this one is much more involved. To give a bit of background information, one of our grandsons is a firefighter, so when […]
I’ve been on a roll making bags lately, but I think this may be the last one for at least a little while. Who knows? I saw that someone online had resized a Project Bag to make it into storage for embroidery machine hoops. What a great idea — especially […]
Sometimes it seems as though things go in a series. I’ve made yet another bag, though this one isn’t intended to store tools for my smaller Bernina. I have a smallish light box for transferring designs; it measures about 14″ x 10.5″ and is quite thin. I saw that By […]
Some of you may remember that I bought this smaller Bernina a few months ago to make it easier to take a machine to sewing events. The machine is the Kaffe Fassett Bernina 475, and it’s so cute! One thing that would make transporting it really simple, I decided, was […]
I’ve been working on a Dresden Plate design for the past few months, and it’s now finished! 🙂 I’d made one several years ago from a pattern by Susan Cleveland, and she has now written a book full of inspiration: Dynamic Dresdens. Her method avoids having to appliqué a circle […]
… of corded piping. It’s been too long — over a month! — Â since I last posted, but I’ve been making slow progress on my Dresden plate quilt. Between then and now, my husband and I went away for a couple of weeks. I also finished the quilting on this […]