Lately I’ve been busy with commissions and other quilting commitments and haven’t had time to finish any new quilts for my Etsy shop. This week there were a couple of “snow days” so I worked on finishing a couple of…
Buried Treasure Discovered-Big Box ‘o Stuff
A couple of days ago I was looking for something in the basement and I came across this box of fabric. What a mish-mash of projects. There were no UFO’s, just a bunch of fabric with absolutely no rhyme or…
Tools of the Trade: Irons
A couple of years ago my sister-in-law commented that she was still using the same she’s had since she got married about 40 years ago. Well that right there tells you she isn’t a quilter (yet—but I working on her!!). …
New Quilt Started-Pineapple Blossom
The pattern for this quilt is on Bonnie Hunter’s Quiltville blog–here: http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/pineapple-blossom.htmlI’ve admired this quilt for quite awhile and finally decided to jump in and make it. I had this box of batik scraps from an applique project I started…
Last Minute Finish
Last fall I went down to Madison to the Quilt Expo. My daughter Jen is in school in Madison so I picked her up and she went with me. While we were there she decided she’d like a quilt for…
Back to our regularly scheduled quilting
For the past month and a half or so I’ve been working on a commission quilt. It is a queen size memory quilt and when it was all said and done it had about 150 pieces of memorabilia in it—everything…
