The other day I happened upon a lovely embroidery motif at Kreations by Kara, and it was on sale. Hmmm … how could I resist? 😉 I decided to make a quick couch cushion, and it was definitely quick and easy. I did a bare minimum of free-motion ruler quilting, […]
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My last post showed a pair of small quilts that will be gifts. Each measures approximately 21″ x 27″ — not large, by any stretch of the imagination. However, I’ve just finished another version that is even smaller: 12.5″ x 16″. All of the designs for both sizes came from […]
Some time back, I posted a few pictures of some embroidered blocks from San Francisco Stitch Co. I was making two sets of the larger (4″) blocks and one set of the 2″ blocks to use in three small quilts. The 2″ blocks are now a quilt top (not pictured […]
Oops! It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything here, but time has just slipped by. I’m still working on a Christmas project with embroidered blocks from the San Francisco Stitch Company, part of which project you can see here. In addition, I’m also knitting a cardigan to use during […]
If you’ve seen many of the quilts I’ve posted here, you may have noticed that I love to use corded piping next to the binding. Now, though, I may be “kicking it up a notch.” I learned of a class online offered by Bethanne Nemesh, whose work I’ve long admired, […]
I’m going to be taking an online class soon, and part of the prep work was to quilt a reasonably large piece of fabric prior to cutting it  into smaller pieces for the various steps of the class. Rather than doing one type of quilting over the entire surface — […]