Category: Quilts in Progress

In 2003, the craziest movie came out–Les Triplettes de Belleville.  It was a combined international effort on the part of France, Belgium, Quebec and the UK.  It was advertised as a full length animated surreal adventure film and was a huge hit at the Cannes Film Festival.  The sound track is very catchy, particularly the […]

Hey, I feel pretty good this morning!   Head is clearer, ears not ringing, eyes not watering too much, nose not completely stuffed up.  Let the vacation begin!  Boy, do I have a lot of sewing projects I would like to work on.  What?  I have to go back to work today?  No!  Did I tell […]

Have you ever thought you could read your pet's mind?  Sophie seems to be telling me "You blog too much.  You sew too much.  You fool around too much when you could be playing with me.  I don't know what you do with your time, but it could be far better spent".  Here she is, […]

Now, these blocks are not sewn together, just laid out on the design bed, but you can see how this top is coming together!  Don't the blocks make a cool design when rotated the way they are?  The pattern and fabric was a kit I bought from Bonnie Blue Quilts, a shop specializing in reproduction […]

You would laugh if you could see me doing my little happy dance.  I love these blocks.  Each one is unique and so much fun to put together.  I have seven done, out of 24 (or is it 25?).  If I make six a day, this Birdseye quilt will be a reality in no time.  […]

I woke up this morning with the beginnings of a little cold or virus or something.  Achey, snozzley, big cold sore on the lip.  A perfect day to make a pot of tea and call in sick.  Sick, but not too sick to work on a certain sewing project.  Heh heh heh.  I emailed the […]

Yes, it was a nine patch weekend. I am working on Miss Rosie's pattern "Birdseye", and needed to make 121 nine patch blocks.  Since you need the nine patch units for the two other main blocks featured in the quilt, as Carrie says "You just might as well get it over with".  It wasn't so […]

Thank you all so much for your suggestions on whether or not I should go for both the blues and browns in my next Raise the Roof quilt project, or just stick with one color or the other.  Overwhelmingly, you said use both.  So I will!  I haven't started cutting it out yet–figured I needed […]

Little by little is the way this quilt is going to get done!  I managed to make six blocks over three day's time.  Well, so be it.  The 64 blocks I need will be done at some point if I keep this up.  Little by little Flowers for Clara will become a quilt. Hey, did […]