I’m trying to finish up the tops from Quilts Beyond Borders before the end of the year. This is the third of six I have to finish. Most of them are around 40” x 60” so they don’t take too…
Honky Tonk Quilt
Like I’ve mentioned before, it’s great to have a job where you can sew at work. The Honky Tonk line from Moda arrived and I volunteered to make a shop sample. We decided on the Lucky Stars pattern by Atkinson…
Gaining Confidence
Before quilting the Sanctuary quilt I had never had much luck when I tried to quilt continuous curves on the frame. I loaded this blue and yellow nine patch and planned to just quilt straight lines through the yellow blocks. …
Catching Up
The Thanksgiving weekend about wore me out. It really is a lot of fun having so many people here but it’s a ton of work. It seems like all I’ve done for the past two weeks is cook and clean. …
DWM: Quiltville Mystery
Many, many quilters will probably have this mystery quilt on their design walls this week. It is Celtic Solstice by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville. It’s not too late to start and you can find out all about it here. I…
Another Finish: Sanctuary
This week I finished quilting the Sanctuary quilt and got the binding sewn on. Last night I finished hand stitching the binding so it is now FINISHED. This isn’t my favorite quilt, but it turned out okay. The fabric I…