last JULY, i strolled into karen gray’s (now the little general) looking for some inspiration for my next quilt. i wanted to make a king quilt for our bedroom. even though i had no kids with me, i still made an impulse purchase of a fat quarter bundle of amy butler’s soul blossom line. 33 […]
making stuff with needles and thread
doll quilt swap…
despite having the kids home everyday, all day, i have found a few moments here and there to sew just a little bit. our quilt guild had a doll quilt swap (although i prefer mini quilt, since doll quilt makes us sound like weird old women who play with dolls), and i managed to finish […]
index card a day… 2.
saw this on my friend paige’s blog and decided to join in the fun. the idea is that you make an index card every day for the months of june and july. whatever you want. drawings, paintings, stitchings, stickers, lists, notes, etc. and then you post them on flickr (or instagram or your blog or […]
i’m a winner!!!
so, if you’re a sewing/quilting world bloggy friend, you know about all about the big giveaway week that we just had… if you’re my mom, or any of the other various random people who reads this blog, you don’t. so i’ll tell you. last week was a big giveaway week sponsored by the sew, mama, […]
granny progress.
so far, i’ve made eight squares for the granny square quilt. or quilts. who knows. #1-4… #5-8… all 8…
granny square quilt.
since i can’t crochet, and i’m really coveting a granny square afghan, i figured the next best thing is to make a granny square quilt. i was recently in a rainbow charm swap at sweet diesel designs and had a pretty stack of 5 inch square rainbow fabrics. i added a few of my own […]
i-spy quilt for the lid kids.
i finished this up last night. i was in a couple of i-spy charm swaps, resulting in 112 different fabrics. then, i used some of my own stuff to get the number up to 144. added 144 more gray squares… quilt. bind. wash and dry. and… the whole top. the binding. machine stitched! (and you […]
Baby Deaton’s Pirate Quilt
On Monday, I acquired some fabric from my friend Amanda who is about ready to pop with her second baby, but first boy. I raced home and made a plan to do some scrappy wonky stars. I threw on some of my scraps (yay! I’ve finally arrived! I have scraps!) and got going. By the […]
the swoon is finished!
after much deliberation, i finally decided to do straight line quilting on my machine and get my swoon quilt finished once and for all… the back seems to get the most oohs and ahhs, which i’m not fully comprehending because the front took about 30 hours to piece and the back about 4 or 5. […]
aunt eleanor’s quilt.
onto the quilting front… i can’t remember if i’ve ever mentioned it here, but i received a windfall of fabric awhile back from a fellow quilter friend who got a bigger windfall and took what she wanted and passed the rest to me. 🙂 some of it was sort of my style. most was not. […]