I love watching The Midnight Quilt Show – Angela Walters’ weekly YouTube series. It’s a quick bit of fun to look forward to mid-way through the week. The part I like the best is seeing how she decides to quilt the quilts because I always get so many ideas. This quilt is the Criss Cross …
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My International Bee, ‘Bee Inspired‘, changed our format this year to one where we are all doing something a bit different each month. I chose to ask everyone to make blocks that I will make in to a Charity quilt to be donated. The blocks I chose to have everyone make are chickens, made from …
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The Summer Sampler is a yearly quilt-a-long hosted by Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced. I wrote about starting mine last summer in this post and have had the finished quilt top on my to-finish list for a few months now. After I knocked out all the Hawaiian quilts I felt like it was time to …
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My gang started doing these retreats a year ago. We found a great Airbnb in the East Mountains of Albuquerque and, after 3 retreats last year, have a retreat booked and planned for every quarter of 2019. Albuquerque doesn’t get a ton of snow, but we are a mile high in altitude and typically get …
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I recently posted my Hawaiian Sampler Quilt which was a great finish, but it is not the first Hawaiian quilt I have done. I completed this wall hanging top some time ago – couldn’t tell you when – and pulled it out to quilt after I finished the sampler. I figured I was good and …
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2019?? Really? Seems crazy. I finished 3 of my 5 projects from last quarter, so I have a bunch of new things in the works for Q1’19. 1. Quilt the Summer Sampler: I finished the quilt top at my October quilt retreat, but I was really bugged by a large grouping of orange in the …
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