Time for spring Bloggers Quilt Festival again over at Amy’s Creative Side! Love this mammoth online quilt show to pieces. So many wonderful quilts to look at and admire!Vertical BasketsI’ve been dragging my heels a bit about getting the binding fi…
Vertical Baskets in Spring 2015 Bloggers Quilt Festival
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…
Lovin’ the Hand Quilting
There wasn’t a lot left to hand quilt on Vertical Baskets, so I pushed a little and managed to finish up. It’s a lovely, rich looking quilt and was a joy to stitch on until the last couple borders. Only then did the repetition start getting a little te…
Slow Stitching the Baskets
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Some Slow Stitching on a Nice Winters Day
Getting a little bit of hand quilting done on the Vertical Baskets quilt. Not a lot, but just enough to start seeing a good pattern emerge. The way I’m stitching directly next to the cable motif in the brown fabric should highlight that fabric especial…
Always Another Quilt To Get Ready For the Hoop
I finished up the hand quilting on ‘Imagine A Quilt’ and figured out an acceptable binding. It’s a whimsical quilt, not very formal at all, so it seemed perfectly suitable to go digging in the leftover binding tote for a starting place. I gathered up f…