Happy New Year!!! This morning I decided one of my New Year Resolutions was to make a concerted effort to sew from my stash of fabrics and to completely EMPTY my string bin! I like to switch over to quilting mode once the weather changes (as you might have guessed from my last post) and… Continue reading New Year, Refining A New Quickie String Block Technique!
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Catching Up! ~What gets done with convelescing dogs…
(Updated...Wordpress deleted half of this post! So I'm re-posting!) Hi Everyone! It has been a couple of weeks since I've posted so I thought I'd take a moment just to get caught up. As I mentioned in an earlier post, Holly was diagnosed with a couple of tumors. Over many conversations I chose to have the… Continue reading Catching Up! ~What gets done with convelescing dogs…
The 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt Has Borders, Ready For Bluebirds and Bluebells!
Hi Everyone! As promised in yesterday’s post I have a picture of the 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt project with it’s new borders! This was the first time I’ve sewn a mitered corner on a quilt top so I wasn’t exactly too sure how it would all go down but it looks like it came… Continue reading The 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt Has Borders, Ready For Bluebirds and Bluebells!
The 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Project – Auditioning an Inner Border
Hi Everyone! My 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Quilt has been pulled out of hiding and put back on the project table. I thnk it has been many a long while since I've sat and worked on this. You know, sometimes things just need to ferment, you know? Just to catch you all up on the… Continue reading The 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Project – Auditioning an Inner Border
My Method for Putting Away The Leftovers – Once The Quilt is Finished!
Heya Friends! I'm working on packing up my temporary sewing area at the dining room table. It's been a fun few months at my new location but it is now time to pack it all up and bring it back upstairs. I'm nearly able to get up and down the stairs (almost the whole way… Continue reading My Method for Putting Away The Leftovers – Once The Quilt is Finished!
The Little Wheels Quilt Project – All Finished!!
Hey Gang! The Little Wheels Quilt Project is all finished! Whoo Hoo! I put the last stitch in last night and just this morning I brought it outside (careful not to let the neighbor see it!) and took some photos. I think these photos came out a little better and I hope you can see… Continue reading The Little Wheels Quilt Project – All Finished!!
The Little Wheels Quilt Project – How To Figure Out The Inner Border
Me again! Hey...this Little Wheels quilt is moving right along. Less than a week to get this all finished for the baby shower so I have to hurry! My next challenge is figuring out the inside border. This is the border that will go between the main body blocks and the Seminole border blocks. I… Continue reading The Little Wheels Quilt Project – How To Figure Out The Inner Border
The Little Wheels Quilt Project – Figuring out the corner blocks
Hey Everyone! I have figured out that I need to make 40 units to go all the way around this Little Wheels quilt. Each of these units look like this; But the problem with sewing diagonal units is that when it comes time to turn the corner the diagonal sewing doesn't work. To rectify this… Continue reading The Little Wheels Quilt Project – Figuring out the corner blocks
16 Patch Pinwheel Project – Checking the Layout
Hey Everyone, Well, there's enough 16 patches finished to start putting together a little layout. Isn't this fun to see how the quilt will come together? I keep plugging away and have now figured out that a good size will be using almost 100 total blocks. That's 50 pinwheels and 50 16 patches. All counted… Continue reading 16 Patch Pinwheel Project – Checking the Layout
16 Patch Double Pinwheel Project – How to figure out the 16 patch size
Hi Everyone...me again, I've been working diligently on this project and now that all of the Double Pinwheel Blocks have been re-sewn back together I want to make an equal amount of 16 Patch Blocks to use as an alternate block for this quilt. The problem that has come up now, is how do I… Continue reading 16 Patch Double Pinwheel Project – How to figure out the 16 patch size
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