Yay! I’ve hit the halfway point in making my Winding Ways blocks! I have to say that my blocks are improving, too, with fewer little “misses” in the center. I’d probably be making faster progress on these blocks, except that the warmer weather is setting in, and my sewing room […]
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I was able to begin making the blocks for my Winding Ways quilt today! It’s going to take a long while to finish this quilt, as there are to be 99 blocks and each one takes some time, given that there are twelve pieces, all with curved seams. These four […]
In all of my excitement about Jennie Rayment’s class and lecture, I almost forgot that our guild challenge took place on the same night as her lecture. I’d made this miniature (3″ blocks) using the two required fabrics, one of which was yellow dots on red and the other green […]
The top is finished! 🙂 I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, though it’s really difficult to tell that I have some metallic fabrics in the center of each “star” — they tend to have glare, even when I don’t use a flash to take the photo. I’m going […]
Remember those blocks I posted from the Jennie Rayment class? I’ve finished four of them now and the pieced border and am doing the machine stitching to curve the pieces of that border. You can see the curves on some of the pieces and the straight edges on some of […]
A couple of days ago, our guild sponsored a visit and lecture from the delightfully funny and knowledgeable Jennie Rayment. If you’ve never had a chance to hear her speak or take a class from her, you can consider yourself deprived. 😉 I was lucky enough to be able to […]