The quilt my daughter Jen made at our November retreat is finished and ready to deliver to her tomorrow. There is no snow in the forecast and it is supposed to be unseasonably warm so Jim and I are driving…
Memory Quilt-Second Time Finished
Yesterday, I showed how the client’s memory quilt looked after I finished it the first time. Then, she asked if I could add some very special items to it. After thinking about how I could incorporate these things into the…
Memory Quilt-First Time Finished
A few years ago someone connected with me through my Etsy shop and asked if I would be willing to make a memory quilt for her. That’s not the kind of quilt I usually make and my experience working with…
DWM: Making Waves (again!)
The Making Waves blocks have shown up on my wall a couple of times already, but after finishing a big project yesterday, I saw them on my sewing table and decided to move it toward the finish line. The half…
Friday Finish: Winding Ways
This quilt has been waiting for a binding for a couple of months. Initially I couldn’t find a big enough piece of a suitable fabric but came across one this week that was probably as good a match as I…
Change of Plans on the Turtles
Just as I was layering the turtle wall hanging for quilting I realized it might be better to make it into a pillow rather than a wall hanging. There was plenty of fabric for the pillow back overlap, the size…
2017 DWM Week 2: Maui Turtles
I’m still having a hard time focusing on the million ongoing projects in my sewing room so instead avoided them all together and worked on this little wall hanging. This was a pattern and kit I picked up when we…
Back to Quilting: Less is Better
It’s a cold day today (predicted high of 4 degrees F) and all I really want to do is crawl back into bed under the electric blanket, but there are quilts to be made! After a month’s hiatus, I finally…