Just wanted to update before the big holiday weekend engulfs me completely. Too much to do and not enough time to get it done in! Finally managed to finish the applique border on my Improv. Woven Basket. It finishes out at approx. 73″ square, so I thin…
May AHIQ Update
Finally Some Improv. Progress
It’s improv. time of the month again! I have three projects in the works, one of which I showed progress on the other day. It’s down to the applique border work for my Improv. Big Basket quilt {made out of strings} and the quilt top probably …
Inch by Inch, They All Meet Up With a Finish Eventually
You know me, always trying to move forward, one little phase of a quilt at a time!Another quilt top closer to a finish!Now that the hand quilting is done on Flowering Snowballs, then it’s time for binding! Can’t leave that hoop empty for long, so…
Circles, circles and more circles….
Ahem. Well, it appears that I don’t have a problem with appliqueing circles anymore. Just needed a different format? lolImprov. Woven Basket quiltI present to you the proof. Here are 28 circle-y type flowers {including 28 roundish circle-y centers} tha…
A Weekend of Applique
Two more blocks finished up for my solids challenge quilt. The goal is to finish one a month and though I was behind with the March block, I quickly made up for that by finishing it and the April block over the weekend. Woohoo! I had to add a tiny bit …
A Giveaway Winner and a Little Bit of Hand Work
It’s time to announce the winner of a very successful Giveaway! Lori Smanski, you are the winner of Scrap Secrets! Yay! I’ll be sending out an email shortly so I can get your contact information. Lots of interesting comments about what or wha…
What Imrov. is Teaching Me
So here it is time for the AHIQ March link up and I’m sort of betwixt and between. There’s definitely been progress made on one of my previous improv. projects, but it’s improv. of a different nature. After adding on a narrow red border, I we…
A More Thoughtful Process
The giveaway is still open through tomorrow, don’t forget to leave a comment! So… This past weekend was a time for thoughtfulness. I tend to be a thinker and there were {are} many, many things on my mind. Hand quilting often helps me solidify th…
A Little More Hand Work
Don’t forget! Only one more day to link up your Quilty 365 circles! There is so much progress being made and tons of great ideas being implemented. Love it! The first two blocks for my Solids Challenge quilt are completed below. The…
Playing With a Pieced Background
Do you ever end up with up with something that doesn’t seem to work for anything creative at all? I had pieced these leftover 5″ tumblers together ages ago, thinking they’d be a wonderful applique background. But it just never came together no matter h…
Playing With a Pieced Background
Do you ever end up with up with something that doesn’t seem to work for anything creative at all? I had pieced these leftover 5″ tumblers together ages ago, thinking they’d be a wonderful applique background. But it just never came together no matter h…
Sunburst Getting Another Border
So I dragged out the Sunburst quilt and gave it another whirl. What to do, what to do. It just doesn’t look finished to me, something is lacking and I just can’t give it up.Sunburst center beforeThe middle has always kind of bothered me. A little too s…
I’m Still Here!
Wowsers, have you seen the January Linkup for Quilty 365? We have 49 links! Thank you to everyone sewing along. It’s so much fun to see all the different interpretations. I am still sewing circles, only one behind as of today, but honest…
Scrap Basket in the Fall 2015 Blogger’s Quilt Festival
Scrap Basket is my first entry into the Blogger’s Quilt Festival this fall. This quilt is one that I started a couple years ago very impulsively with a very tiny germ of an idea!Scrap BasketThe ideas for this quilt seemed to build, chang…
Prep Work and Some Slow Quilting
I started the centerpiece for my Folksy Flower quilt. Just cut long rectangular chunks of black fabric and then used my rotary cutter to make the curved ‘petal’ end. All freehand of course. Why bother making an exact pattern or trying to be precise whe…
An Applique Round Up
So here I am, piling on the applique again. It’s because I need applique in my quilts like I need to breathe. It’s not that it doesn’t ever get tedious {because it does}, it’s just that having simple applique in my quilts somehow makes me love and ador…
Now I’m Stitching Some Folky Birds
Sorry this is so wrinkled. Bad blogger alert! I’ve been gradually working on it for weeks and I guess it just got stuffed willy nilly into my handwork bag when I was doing the prepared evacuation stuff. As I’ve been working on it, the wrinkles are fall…
Applique Play
I am moving very slowly on this quilt. The repetition of doing the same thing over and over always gets to me and I don’t have a specific finish date for this quilt. That and I don’t even have a really solid idea of where I’m going with this one! I won…
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…
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…
A Change of Pace. Or Not.
Things have been busy lately. I’ve been putting what little bit of time I have for quilting into applique or hand quilting work. Then I found myself in the quilting room digging through fabrics for no particular reason—just because it feels good. …
‘Cuz I Know You’re Just As Thrilled With the Marsala Quilt As I Am
Right? It’s gonna be fabulous when it’s all done. Trust me on this! lol I am having a lot of fun with this quilt in case you hadn’t already figured that out. First I went through my stack of potential fabrics for this quilt and pulled what I thou…
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…