The Quilting is Finished!!!! I completed the spiral quilting of the border this afternoon. I made a quick video for your viewing pleasure. There is some narration, but it's my first production at that so go easy on me! Anyhoosy...here's the vid: Now all I need to do is the binding! My FIRST binding, yikes.… Continue reading Quilting The Carolina Christmas – The Spiral Border!
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Quilting The Carolina Christmas – The Holly Border!
Yippee! Here is a video of me quilting the Holly Border. I think it might be a little long but you can see my scribble! I do speak a little so turn the sound up if you want to hear (sorry, no sub-titles...just saying to myself..."holly point, holly point...blah, blah,blah) otherwise just watch... ~Enjoy! Til… Continue reading Quilting The Carolina Christmas – The Holly Border!
Quilting The Carolina Christmas – Running Out of Thread
Yesterday I ran out of thread! Look...I just had this last little corner bit to do before working on the borders!Fortunately I had wound several bobbins and have a couple left to work through. I'm hoping I can squeeze it out of them! In the meantime I did find Aurifil at Linda Z's in Arlington… Continue reading Quilting The Carolina Christmas – Running Out of Thread
Quilting The Carolina Christmas – Pulling Threads or Un-Quilting
I know many of you are new here, reading about this quilt, but some background on this Carolina Christmas Quilt might enlighten you as to why I might be Un-Quilting a section of this quilt. About a year and a half ago I was trying to quilt this particular piece using a frame system whereby… Continue reading Quilting The Carolina Christmas – Pulling Threads or Un-Quilting
Quilting The Carolina Christmas – Little Sport Can’t Handle It!
Phfft. Something happened to my little Bernina Sport during the quilting of this Carolina Christmas quilt. It started squeaking so bad it sounded like Styrofoam rubbing together. Jim thought it might have busted a bearing. I have no idea. It still sews but I'm going to have to take it in to a shop and… Continue reading Quilting The Carolina Christmas – Little Sport Can’t Handle It!
Quiltville’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll – Part 4 – Skipping Around
I'm skipping around. I have only completed 6 of the Prickly Pear blocks. That's 6 out of 30! Yikes. Those Prickly Pears are kinda of a pain to put together. There are a lot of seams and I have to steam open a lot of them in order for the block to lay flat and… Continue reading Quiltville’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll – Part 4 – Skipping Around
Quiltville’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll Quilt – Part 2
The 1st clue is complete. I finished cutting up the 172 segments this morning. It didn't take long to get that one finished as I already had 120 complete. Aren't they purty? So now it's on to Clue 2. What I just need to do is finish cutting apart my paper templates. I have them… Continue reading Quiltville’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll Quilt – Part 2
Quiltville’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll Quilt – Part 1 My Version
Alright! Here we go! I know I've mentioned in a previous post that I had already dabbled in some of the clues to this mystery, so forgive me in advance if this post seems like a yawner. As a refresher, you can click over to Quiltville if you want to print out the clues and… Continue reading Quiltville’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll Quilt – Part 1 My Version
So if you start a mystery quilt do you have to finish?
YES! Though after getting the third clue of the mystery I was a little deflated in my enthusiasm. I'll explain... I decided to get in on the mystery quilt being published over at Quiltville.com. This is the same designer that did the Carolina Christmas Mystery from a year ago. I LOVE that quilt so with… Continue reading So if you start a mystery quilt do you have to finish?
How a perfectly good idea to reduce some excess fabric turns into a project snowball! Or, how I create work for myself with a little inspiration.
It starts with a bag of muslin, leftovers from various projects over the years. Some dating back to the muslin I made for my sister's wedding dress in 1993. Odds and ends of various width and lengths. I can't hardly throw anything of what I perceive as true value away...so here we are... I pulled… Continue reading How a perfectly good idea to reduce some excess fabric turns into a project snowball! Or, how I create work for myself with a little inspiration.
Sewing.for.Life! 
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