A stack of rainbow fat quarters in my fabric cupboard caught my eye a week or so ago and I started wondering what I could make with them. Then I remembered a quilt I drew in EQ7 that called for…
2016 Week 17 Stash Report and Recap
Yesterday I put the final stitches in the binding on this quilt. It was one of my UFOs for April and was made completely from stash. The pattern is a variation of the pattern Lemon Pepper by Madison Cottage Design…
On the Frame: Parson Gray Scrap Quilt
This quilt is the only one that’s been on the frame this week and it is really boring quilting—just straight lines. It’s a masculine quilt so feathers and curls wouldn’t look right. Early in April I decided to pick two…
Picking Up Where I Left Off
It has been a long time since I’ve done ANY sewing. It was the summer of walking and walk we did, but now it’s time to get back to business. When my husband Jim retired in July, he had never…
Everything But Sewing
My husband, Jim, retired July 10 and it has been a summer of major adjustment for me. For the past 35 years I have been used to him being gone from home for at least 12 hours five days a…
DWM: Sweet and Simple
My big design wall news is that I actually (finally!) have a design wall. In all my years of quilting I’ve always made do with whatever flat surface was available…mostly the floor. I have a small piece of batting hung in…
Mini Lotus Quilt Finished
Yesterday I finally managed to squeeze in some quality sewing time and finished this little quilt. During the quilt retreat Jen and I attended in March the woman sitting next to me was working on a mini Lotus quilt. I…
A Quilt for Emma Lee
Last week I had to giddy-up and get a baby quilt made very quickly. My niece Amanda just had a baby girl–BIG NEWS in our family because we haven’t had a baby in a long time. Originally I hadn’t planned to…
Another Fancy Fox In The Works
Still seems like there aren’t many projects getting finished here but I am getting a little sewing time so that’s good news. A couple of opportunities arose to do some sewing for others so I still haven’t had a chance…
WIP Wednesday: Island Chain
This quilt really taxed my brain. The units for this quilt are super simple and I thought it would be a piece of cake to put together but it was a struggle. After working on the layout for an hour…
Porch Swing Borders…and my border confession
The UFOs are piling up in my sewing room so I need to at least finish some tops so I can move them and their leftover bits out of there (and into another pile haha!). Today I sewed borders onto the…
Beautiful Day on the Water
The weekend weather forecast was not very promising and it looked like Saturday would be the only warm, sunny day. It was beautiful when we got up so we loaded the kayaks on the car and headed up to Door…