43.4 Sukey’s Reverse Quilt Top Completed!
After coming back from a much needed vacation, I set up to finish the quilt top for the Sukey’s Reverse quilt for the guild. Last post, I was waiting for some blocks, and with special guidance, was...
View Article43.2 Waiting game for last of the opportunity quilt blocks
Racing back to the opportunity quilt my guild is putting on, I put down in a post a lot of feelings I have had about working on the quilt. Currently (at the moment of writing, not the moment of...
View Article43.0 Dressing up the stained glass quilt
In contrast of the red and grey Dresden flower quilt, I was cleaning up the parts of the Forget Me Not stained glass quilt pattern, and I had a few ideas on how to do my borders on this quilt. It was a...
View Article42.9 Grey Dresden quilt to help work through sad feelings
In the brief couple of weeks at the end of one project (guild show) before ramping back up with the opportunity quilt project, I have been working out my feelings between two different “art quilts”....
View Article42.8 Offset Dresden Flower
Since I was working on my watermelon Dresden quilt several years ago, I cut some extra red Dresden petals. They were too short for the length of petals on that project, they were all the same fabric,...
View Article42.2 Making Lanyards for the Guild Show
We decided to change the way we were doing our charity project for our upcoming guild show in 2018. We used to make a quilt (or other) and put it up for silent auction to be given to the highest bidder...
View Article42.0 Designing a quilt for the guild
Every other year our guild is making an opportunity quilt – sorta like a raffle quilt – for the guild. Our current one will be drawn for in a few more weeks. Here is our current guild opportunity quilt...
View Article41.7 Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival KCRQF 2017 – Part 5 – Quilts...
Hi, this is part 5 of a quilt show featuring quilts from the June 2017 Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival. I have decided not to post details about the quilts but I very likely have taken the...
View Article38.7 What happens when you disappear a shoo fly block
I have been sewing shoo fly blocks as leaders and enders for several months during other projects. I started with two 5 inch blocks, right sides together. I did the trick where you sew around the edges...
View Article39.1 Double BOM(b)
Two months in a row, I can say that I have been keeping up with the monthly pattern from Ula Lenz for 2016. This block of the month, BOM for short, is a stained glass hexagon quilt. So far, most of the...
View Article39.0 First BOM – Stained Glass
For the brand new year, I happened upon a brand new BOM that I decided to join up and work on. I love the stained glass look for quilts, and this one just spoke to me this time. A designer for which I...
View Article38.9 Quilt Accomplishments for 2015 – the Year of Scraps
I would like to recap my 2015 quilt related accomplishments. Many of them are tops, I really did little to no Free Motion Quilting during the year of 2015. I did have three quilts quilted during the...
View Article38.8 Winslow’s Corners quilt an Arkansas Crossroads pattern
The end of 2015 was surrounded by creating quilt tops of the “scrap” genre. Quilts with lots of different fabrics in them, sometimes color controlled, sometimes completely random. I readily obtain many...
View Article38.7 What happens when you disappear a shoo fly block
I have been sewing shoo fly blocks as leaders and enders for several months during other projects. I started with two 5 inch blocks, right sides together. I did the trick where you sew around the edges...
View Article38.3 Scrap Sewing more of the same
Hey all! I have been trying a few things, but today during my day off I have gotten more done of the same quilts I have been working on. First I am working on adding more corners to the Winslow Corners...
View Article38.2 Winslow Corners quilt idea
I have had the privilege of sewing many days after work this week. Mindless sewing mainly from leaders & enders I was putting into place from a while ago. After my “turn-it-around” sewing room...
View Article37.6 How Round Robins Work
This is a post describing how round robins work, or rather, how our round robin worked, complete with pictures. If you missed a while on the blog or were redirected here from elsewhere, I was included...
View Article37.3 Finishing the old inspires the new
One major benefit of my annual March-A-Long is that often times to help fulfill my self requirement of 15 minutes of sewing a day, that I dive onto Quilter’s Cache or into EQ7 and start looking at new...
View Article37.0 Twilt On My Last Round Robin Quilt
Between the month of January & February, I was frantically running around trying to finish the very last Round Robin quilt I did for my #twilter group A. At the time of this writing, I still have...
View Article36.8 Translating quilting pattern to Ceramic
Hey! I have started to look at EQ7 again with my March-A-Long goals. Later today is the day I meet with the quilter for the Royal Red King’s Puzzle quilt. So I have been doing some quiet quilting, even...
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