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, […]
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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 […]
I’ve been forgetting to add this quilt to my blog and my “regular” web site. It’s called Water Lilies, as the colors I chose for it reminded me of Monet’s paintings. I began the quilt in a class well over a year ago, but the class was extremely disappointing, as […]
Over a year ago, I took a class at a retreat. I wasn’t very happy with the class, so I simply put the pieces away until recently, when I decided to finish the quilt on general principle. 😉 I’ve finished piecing the two-part wedges into the “bow tie” sections and […]
Several weeks ago, my granddaughter asked me to teach her how to make a quilt, and I told her we’d better wait until school was over for the summer, since she and her family are always pretty busy. Today was the day! I got out graph paper for her to […]
Not too long ago, I showed you some fabrics that are to be in my next quilt. Yesterday I began making the blocks and continued today. I’m pretty happy with the way they’re turning out, though there’s one at the lower left in the photo that looks pretty wonky. However, […]