free motion

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What was I thinking?

If you’ve been reading my blog for any time at all, you know that I really like the patterns I’ve bought from Annie. I liked her Hold Everything Bag so much that I bought all of the supplies necessary to make her more recent A Place for Everything Bag, This […]

Twister Illusions

This is the second quilt I began during the recent quilting cruise I enjoyed! I showed you in progress here, but now it’s finished. 🙂 It measures 18.5″ x 22″ and was from a pattern by Marilyn Foreman, though Marsha Bergren taught the Twister technique on the cruise. I decided […]

Herringbone

A couple of weeks ago, “my” quilt circle had its regular meeting, at which many of us used instructions shared by Christa Watson, a local quilter, to make chevron quilts. The original instructions used 5″ blocks, but I decided to make a miniature, so I ended up with 1.5″ blocks […]

Great class!

Friday I was lucky enough to have been able to take a free-motion quilting class from Cindy Needham. She’s most famous for her quilts made from old linens, and we saw lots of those at Thursday evening’s guild meeting — they’re drop-dead gorgeous! But linens aren’t something I have hanging […]