Recently my husband’s cousin had a baby, so I had a great excuse to make a quilt. I found a fat quarter bundle of Dr. Seuss fabric that I thought would be fun to work with and set about drawing up a pattern. The bundle included a bunch of panels, so I drew up …
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Angela Walters recently hosted a ‘Quilting a-long’ – not a Quilt a-long, a Quilting a-long, because this was all about the machine quilting. She published a simple quilt pattern for the top and posted weekly YouTube videos that taught new techniques. I got going late with the challenge because I didn’t want to have the …
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I had a great time at my first quilt retreat in early March, but dragging around all the gear was not the most fun. I have few events coming up – guild sew days and a few classes – so I decided buying an inexpensive lightweight machine would be a good thing to do. After …
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I had some time to myself this past weekend so I spent it getting caught up on a few projects. First up, the Bee Blocks for my group. We had 2 Bee Queens in March in order to avoid doing blocks during busier months later in the year. I got one Queen’s blocks completed and …
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Here we are in Q2 already. I have a bunch of projects in the works and I’m hoping to start some new things too: Dog Gone Cute Bee Quilt – these are the blocks from my Bee group last year. They are so cute! During Q1’18 I added 2 more blocks to fill it …
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I’m both really happy with my Q1’18 finishes, and kind of disappointed. I finished a few really great quilts that I am really proud of, but I also didn’t get to sew (or blog!) as much as I wanted to this quarter. I had some changes going on at work that kept me away from …
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