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
It’s a Wrap!
My goal this year is to have more finishes than great starts. It’s been really tough at times as I feel like there’s a leash attached to my creativity. But I’m trying. Summers End is a finish!This quilt {Summer’s End} was started in the fall of 20…
Let Them Eat Cake—The Long Struggle to Completion
The Mini Cake Stands quilt is finally finished after a rather long journey! It was started back in early 2012 as I just couldn’t resist the siren call of making 150 little basket blocks. Obviously. I mean, how cute are they?Let Them Eat Cake (the mini …
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…
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…
More Quilty 365, A Finished Quilt Top and Some Lovely New Fabric
Wowsers! Very fun to have so much interest in Quilty 365, which ironically is going to be 366 days, but hey, whatever. A circle a day for a year. That’s the main thing that concerns us crazy quilters! I’m hearing lots of very creative ideas from t…
Making Time For Hand Work
Sometimes I feel like nothing is ever really getting done around here. All I do is piddle. First on one project and then, on another. Mostly that feeling persists because my life gets very chaotic, but really, trying to keep up with all the demands on …
Always a Basket or Two Around Here….
I’ve been steadily stitching these basket handles down, one little piece at a time. First the inside curve, then the outside. One after another they slowly stack up.What’s in my applique bag….It helps fill the time while I’m helping out with an aunt …
Struggling With a Different Process
I need to approach what I’m doing from another angle occasionally. Have a different starting point and look at things from a fresh viewpoint. I guess that’s why Kaja and Ann’s AHIQ series is so interesting to me.My starting squaresI…
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…
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…