As I’ve been cleaning out and organizing my sewing room, I keep running across fabrics of which I have more than just scraps or fat quarters. I have approximately 2 yards of the soccer ball fabric, leftover from a t-shirt quilt I made for my cousin. When I first bought the fabric, I wasn’t sure… Continue reading My quilt challenge
Author: Melissa
Wonderful surprise
I went to the Lebanon Piecemakers’ quilt meeting Monday to give away some of the cross stitch and quilting supplies that I had pulled from my sewing room over the past week. When I arrived, I met Glynda, who had mentinoed she would love to have some of the English Paper Piecing supplies that I… Continue reading Wonderful surprise
Downsizing crafts
I’ve spent a fair bit of time the past month reevaluating the types of crafting that I can do now. It has been a year and a few months since my vision blind spots occurred, and for at least the past year, my vision has been stable. I had a heart to heart with myself… Continue reading Downsizing crafts
Final piecing soon
I laid out the blocks on the floor and arranged and re-arranged them until I felt they were a good mix. The cats helped, of course, which caused me to have to re-arrange them multiple times. But I stacked my columns for webbing that should happen soon! I’ve been getting lots of practice with webbing… Continue reading Final piecing soon
Purple-y
I thought the color selections so far were missing a bit of purple, so I chose some of the recent gray-purples (deep plum?) I used in the last Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt I finished. I came home from a recent quilt meeting with some donated fabric scraps, so I’m in the process of pressing and… Continue reading Purple-y