Remember this post? Since then, I made the painful decision to redo that border, so I bought more red fabric for the narrow strips and more white for the background. This time everything seems to have gone much better, as the fabric didn’t bleed as I spritzed out the blue […]
How do you make a choice??? A couple of days ago an old friend came to town to attend a convention. She is the reason I began going to Houston each year for the big quilt show. Sadly, we hadn’t seen each other in several years, as she lives in […]
I’ve been working on my appliqué project from the Karen Kay Buckley class I took at the Phoenix AQS show earlier this month. I finished the center block by hand and then began work on the outer border, which has seventeen quarter-inch strips applied to each of the four sides […]
I’ve just discovered that Keepsake Quilting (you do get their lovely catalog, don’t you?) is having a giveaway, and the grand prize is a 20-year supply of fabric! Who wouldn’t love that? 🙂 Second place (two winners) is a one-year supply of fabric, and third place (50 winners) will have a […]
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend my very first AQS quilt show; this was the one held in Phoenix. I stayed with my very good friend, and we had *such* a good time — as usual. HandworkAt any rate, I took two classes while there. […]