The title of this post is the name of the project I’ve just completed — a quick one that will be pretty useful. It begins with a pattern called Quilted Cook & Carry and was modified by the education department at Bernina USA as part of their All About Embroidery program. The original […]
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First of all, let me stress that the class I took last Saturday was excellent, and Sandra Bruce is a very good teacher. I love taking classes, and I always learn something in each one. This one taught me that the technique we were attempting just isn’t for me. Sad but […]
Perhaps two classes in the space of a week, when one is out of state and the other is in town, are a bit much, but I do enjoy exploring new-to-me techniques. The class I took yesterday was quite different from the quail of last weekend, as it uses a […]
My seven-year-old granddaughter wanted to make a cushion for her bed, so she spent today with me. She’d already picked out the colors she wanted, and I pulled fabrics from my stash and cut them from the layout I’d done in EQ7 (for the Mac!) so we’d be sure to […]
During the cruise I told you about in my last post, I took two classes. There were actually three, but some of my friends and I did take one day off to explore the ship and try the zip line. 🙂 The first class was paper piecing with Carol Doak, […]
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 […]