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 […]
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the week in review…
we had a pretty uneventful week this week. we started off with memorial day, as did the rest of the country, i suppose. derek made a bucket of guacamole and we headed over to our pals the p-salls for a little cookout. the buddies. derek took this picture of his burger, and thanks to apple’s […]
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. […]
S.C.A.N. quilt… done.
our modern quilt guild has been working on blocks and/or quilts to be donated to a local charity, SCAN (stop child abuse now). the quilts will go directly to kids who have been victims of child abuse (or so i understand). anyhow, i had a lot of blocks lying around from when i made isaac’s […]
Swoon-along update
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a little here and a little there, I’ve managed to make 4 out of 9 swoon blocks in the Flickr swoon-along. After the third, I was a little discouraged, but I like the fourth and I’m motivated once again… Block #4: Block #3: Block #2: Block #1: All the blocks hanging […]