In fifteen pieces, to be exact! One of the pictured pieces is actually two identical ones, so that’s why it doesn’t look like fifteen. I counted up how many stitches went into making these pieces, and the total was almost 378,000! I used up an entire roll of water-soluble stabilizer, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
… of corded piping. It’s been too long — over a month! — 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 […]
I’ve completed my three planned Dresden Plates and attached them to the quilt sandwich. In Susan Cleveland’s technique, they are attached to the entire quilt sandwich at this point, rather than just to the quilt top. Now I’m beginning the quilting! So far, I’m not quite sure what I’m going […]
Last month I posted a couple of little bags I’d made to make taking my Bernina Kaffe475 to various sewing events. After finishing those, I decided it would be a good idea to add to the set by making a project bag for fabrics, partial pieces, and patterns. So now […]