After a rather long hiatus, I’m back to working on my Exploding Star quilt. 🙂 I’d sandwiched and pinned it some time ago, but then I ran into complications (including a great vacation trip, followed by a nasty cold), but now I’m back at it. My sewing room is also […]
free motion
118 posts
I’ve been AWOL for a time as I worked on an online class. I have a terrible time deciding how I want to do the quilting on my quilts, so I’ve just finished a design class that may help me overcome that. It was a class from Lisa Calle, from whom […]
I’m once again in my usual quandary: what designs to use when quilting my latest quilt top, which is to be a gift. I’ve finished the top, which is called Exploding Heart, and I’m planning to sandwich the backing, batting, and top when I can have uninterrupted use of our […]
I saw a little kit at the quilt shop the other day, and it made me giggle. I just had to have it! I did add one extra fabric to it, since I used the included binding fabric for corded piping and so needed something else for the binding. This […]
Gosh, it’s been such a long time! Unfortunately, I’ve been sort of out of commission for a little while since developing arthritis in my thumbs — and, of course, it’s worse in my left thumb. Have I mentioned that I’m left-handed? 😉 But I’ve improved to the point of being […]
I can hardly believe that it’s been a month since I last posted! Obviously, I’ve been busy, but that’s really a terrible excuse. I now have the patterns for the last parts of the “coffee” BOM from Wonderfil, but I haven’t yet been able to make them — I’m hoping […]