As planned, I’ve finished adding the borders to La Vie Est Belle, and I’m taking a bit of a break to get some other things accomplished before beginning the quilting. That will give me time to think about how I want to quilt it — deciding that always takes me […]
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Whew! The major part of the piecing on this quilt is now done! The next part will be to add the borders, of course, and then I may put the top away temporarily and do something else for some variety before beginning the quilting. Naturally, given my “waffly” mind, the […]
Oh my! I can hardly believe it’s been so long since my last post! I have all sorts of excuses, ranging from being under the weather to holiday prep and family doings, but of course we all have those. LOL! A few weeks ago, I began working on La Vie […]
Pieced, quilted, bound and labelled — it’s done! I’ve mentioned before that I’m not pleased with the way I quilted this, but finished is good, so I refuse to wallow in regrets; I’m happy that it’s finished. The pattern came from KwiltArt, where you can find a wide variety of […]
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 […]
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 […]