My granddaughter started working on a jellyroll quilt at the beginning of the summer after we’d given her the jellyroll and backing/binding fabric for her birthday in May. As soon as the rush of end-of-school activities was over, she came over to my house to sew, but a long list of scheduling conflicts […]
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Back in 2001, my late mother-in-law was visiting and commented that she had a small black sewing machine that was going to waste and did I want it? My eyes lit up, of course, in the hope that it was a lovely little old Singer Featherweight. To make a long […]
I’m still working on the quilt I showed you last week. I’m doing the border now, and it’s taking a lot longer than I’d foreseen. That’s mainly because the curved cross hatching I’d decided to do there is more time consuming than I’d thought. For one thing, I probably should […]
I’ve been reading Amy’s Free Motion Adventures for a while now. She has some wonderful tutorials for free motion quilting, but she also has a wonderful foot for her sewing machine. It’s just like the ones you see on long arm machines, but it fits her domestic machine and makes […]
A couple of weeks ago, I received this invitation in the mail, and it sounds like such fun! 🙂 “My” LQS — located a dangerous five minutes from home — is Quiltique (that’s their logo you see on the invitation), a beautiful store that’s also a Bernina dealership. They’ve invited […]
I did say I was going to show you where I quilt, but then I only posted a photo of my Bernina. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll show you the rest of the room. It’s a bedroom in our three-bedroom home, so it’s not huge — just about […]