Don’t forget to check in with my Quilty 365 Linkup and Giveaway. Lots of great variations and creativity on display! Also, I have EQ7 software for Windows that I’ve decided to sell. Shoot me an email if you’re interested and we can discuss the det…
17 in 2017 and Other Misc. Stuff That I like to Chatter About
Things Will Never Be the Same—Fall 2016 Bloggers Quilt Festival
It’s time for that wonderful on-line Bloggers Quilt Festival once again! Amy does a great job putting this together and I’d like to thank her for her efforts! The quilt was one that I questioned very seriously whether it should be included. B…
A Little Spark of Inspiration
10/23/15 Update: My quilt came home with this third place ribbon. So exciting!!Third Place in the Modern CategoryI know you’re all getting tired of this quilt, but today was pretty incredible. My mom, a good friend and I traveled over to the Washington…
Sometimes It Works Out Better
Well, the NCW 2015 Quilt Show was this weekend. I took my quilts down to Wenatchee on Monday for drop-off {it’s an hour drive}. Practically shaking when I handed them over, I managed to leave them instead of gathering them all up and making a mad dash …
Giveaway Winners, Appliqued Leaves and Why I’m Not Currently a Local Guild Member
Time to announce the winners from my 5 years of blogging giveaway! Very fun that both of them are quilt bloggers who I’m already familiar with! The first winner is Quilting Babcia from Amity Quilter blog. I will be giving her ‘The 1718 Coverl…
A Life Learning Lesson
Back from the quilt show today. I started out this morning so excited to think of the community viewing my Fire quilt, thinking of all the possible reactions. Yeah. About that. First of all, going to drop off my quilts yesterday was a bit of a stressor…
The Fire Quilt is FINISHED
**My giveaway is still open! Okay, here you go. It’s time for picture overload with this quilt! My quilt holders were all at work or on vacation, so I don’t have a really good pic of the entire quilt yet. Maybe later in the week? The bottom o…
Slow Stitching Time
Well, I’m back at it. Got to get some stitches into this quilt in order to see it hanging at the quilt show! My husband and I attempted to have a get-away anniversary weekend and ended up having it cut very short.Thinking this would workSometimes life …
Working Through the Emotion
Okay, here’s the quilt that has been consuming all my time. It’s the quilt about the fire that happened in our town approximately 10 months ago, all the fraught emotion for free. There’s a lot of layers and subtleties to this quilt and honestly, I…
The Loose Ends
Getting the bits and pieces figured out for all five panels on the fire quilt. I usually consider it ‘cleaning up the loose ends’, but sometimes it takes more time than others. I spent several hours with it laying on the floor, scratching my head and w…
More Stitching
Gotta love Mothers Day. The one day I’m guaranteed not to have to cook! I had a nerve wracking experience with a big, hairy, jumpy spider while sitting in the back of our Suburban yesterday, but you know how that goes. {Husband driving, dad, mom and mo…
Finding Balance or Finding my Quilty Self. And Never the Twain Shall Meet…
I think I’m in a bit of a sluggish, slummy slump lately. Never really feeling like I get anywhere. I play, dribble and dabble at things but it never seems to add up. Am I ill? Look at this gorgeous fabric! And I haven’t even cut into it yet. So indecis…
The View to my Lap
Quilting has been knocked off the priority list this week, but I still manage to squeeze in a few moments here and there. {I do value my sanity such as it is.} After a nice longish break, I picked up the fire quilt again. On to panel #4! My coffee…
This Quilt
I have stitched on this quilt until my eyes have practically crossed. Then it gets set aside for work on something else. Each week though, I consistently keep coming back to this quilt, and as always, I’m seeing the kind of progress that eventually sho…
Lots More Hand Work….
Still sticking to my plan of working on this quilts hand work first. You’re probably gonna get sick of it waaay before it’s done, but I’m feeling good about making serious progress. There are many decisions to make, lots of wording to play with, and al…
Working on Some Freehand Applique Letters
I’ve been steadily plugging along on my Fire quilt. The more I do, the less it feels like I’m fighting it. Does that make sense? Steady progress seems to free me up {emotionally} to work on other applique without feeling like I’m completely ditching th…
Lots of Little Baskets and Some Crumb Block Play
The fire quilt has been something I’ve decided to push to the front of the line as far as applique priority, but it will not be the only thing I’m working on. Who can possibly do all applique, all of the time? Okay, definitely not me, but I d…
My Current Applique Round Up
I am on complete and total applique overload lately. It’s not terribly unusual around here, but once it hits, then it’s almost deadly, at least to my motivation. First of all, there is my Sunburst quilt. I’ve firmly deemed it a ‘forever’ project by now…