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. […]
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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 […]
quilt for baby girl s
Somehow, in the last week or so, I managed to throw together this little quilt for my friend carlye’s (and mike’s) baby-girl-on-the-way. I originally planned to mail something closer to the due date (they recently moved to the Midwest 🙁 ). But, she’s coming back to town this weekend for a baby shower, so once […]
Swoon-along
after waffling about my next quilt, i decided to crack open a fat quarter of tula pink prince charming fabric and make the super popular swoon quilt. after being told of a flickr quilt-along for fellow swoon makers, i hopped on board. i made the first block yesterday: some things: 1. i decided to make […]
meeting max
Over the weekend, the lid kids and I loaded up and rode to Raleigh to meet max. As expected, he was cute and tiny and wrinkly and very much a brand new baby. He liked his quilt: Sarah’s parents stopped in to see us all and met Anna for the first time. We strolled down […]
max’s quilt.
my high school bff, sarahpowers, was supposed to have a baby boy on january 8th. my plan WAS to take a little post-christmas breather, then gear up to knock out a quilt for mr. max. however, in all of the christmas excitement, he decided to get born. so, in the wee hours of december 26th, […]
a handmade christmas gift for ME.
i have been busy craft-craft-crafting away this christmas season. i made a zillion ornaments for friends. i sewed something up for every member of derek’s family. i gave my mom and derek’s mom a quilt. and i even managed to squeeze in a tree skirt (which, i guess technically was for me since the rest […]
2011 handmade gift project
this year, just before thanksgiving, we had to tighten up our budget a bit. nothing like some americans are having to do these days, but enough to put a crunch on christmas. so, i decided to make as many gifts as possible, from supplies i already own. and boy, do i seem to own a […]