Category: Quilting

There you see the last stitch in my binding for my Fall Sunflowers quilt.  I challenged Lisa to get one quilt bound by Sunday night, not so much to push her into finishing one, but to push myself!  It is such a good feeling to put that last stitch in.  I find any kind of […]

I know, I know, I have really been missing in action lately.  I’m sorry for the lack of regular posts and am extremely grateful to all of you who check my blog regularly to see what I am up to.  I’ll tell you in a minute. Sunday I attended a Banish the UFOs get-together (that […]

Some of you noticed this quilt in the background of a photo of my Featherweight a week or so ago and asked about it.  This quilt is very subtle–what they call a "blended" quilt.  All the colors are pretty much the same tones so one print or color just blends into the next, making the […]

istockphoto Remember old Yogi Bear from Jellystone Park?  "Hey Boo Boo!  I am smarter than the averrrr-age bear!"  "Hey Boo Boo!  Want to go on a piiiick-a-nick?"  Well, Carrie Nelson named one of the classes she taught us "Jellystone", because her new pattern features a variation of the classic Bear Paw block.  I can’t show […]

I was working on an original quilt design for my daughter Sara to use in her upcoming shop, and this is what I came up with.  It was going to be bigger, and it was supposed to be easy, but those things didn’t happen.  The pattern was intended to be aimed at a beginning level […]

  Back in April, when we were on our quilting retreat, my daughter Sara created the cutest quilt using two charm packs and some additional white yardage for lattices.  While she was away in Japan last week, I decided to try out her pattern with the new Look and Learn charm packs by American Jane […]

I like to plan ahead when I can.  It may seem crazy, but I am looking ahead to the holiday season, and if this quilt is going to be quilted and ready to go by late November, now is a good time to get it out the door to the quilter. This is my Return […]

The weather here in the Monterey area has been breathtakingly gorgeous all weekend, so I am afraid I have not gotten in much sewing time.  I started a project for Sara, and hope to show pictures of that later this week.  My husband and I spent hours in the car Saturday and Sunday, driving down […]

The Celebrate Spring Fatquarter Challenge between Darlene of Quilting Daze, Dawn of Quilts and Pieces, and myself is officially over.  The challenge was issued by Darlene and the task was to use the same fatquarter fabric group (Celebrate Spring by Sandy Gervais for Moda), and create independent quilting projects within a one month time frame.  […]

I thought it might be time to show you all another quilt made by my sister Kate.  This bargello quilt is a real beauty. It is the second bargello quilt that she has made. Instead of me telling you all about it, here you have it straight from Kate: "Well, the book I used is […]