Turning a corner

I’ve had lots of interruptions lately, but I’m still plugging away at my ‘Tis the Season quilt (see my previous post and the one before that). I’ve finished embroidering the borders and adding them to the center; unfortunately, I don’t have a large enough space to put it up to […]

Center done!

I’ve had some other calls on my time this past week, but today I trimmed up all of the rest of the blocks and sashing strips that I’d made for the embroidered quilt I started in class last week. Then I got them all put together into a 40.5″ square. […]

‘Tis the Season

I’ve just returned from a wonderful class at the Bernina Connection in Phoenix. 🙂 My quilt buddy, Phyl, invited me to stay with her, and we always have a great time together! The class was taught by Claudia Dinnell, who does wonderful digitized embroidery patterns. The pattern we did is […]

A plethora of “featherweights”

Many of you may have heard that this summer there was a row-by-row challenge across the US. The idea was to visit as many quilt shops as possible, pick up the row pattern they had available, and make the rows into a quilt. I didn’t visit any quilt shops, with the […]

Weather

Who said the weather in the Las Vegas area is always the same? A few large raindrops fell on me as I was coming home yesterday afternoon. Once home, it began *pouring* — we ended up with over 1/2” dumped on us over the course of the late afternoon! We desperately […]

Back to the “road trip”

Earlier this summer, I’d been making some embroidered blocks, released weekly here.Two more blocks were released while I was away, and I was able to download the files then. Two more blocks were released as I was returning home, so now I have all nine blocks made and waiting. Waiting […]