My Sand Castles quilt just came back from my quilter, and it’s so beautiful! When I picked it up, we were chatting about the quilt and binding, and she suggested a scrappy binding. I really think that would be perfect for this quilt (and several upcoming) because of their scrappy nature and lack of any… Continue reading Time to make binding
Category: Quilting
Quilting and quilting-related projects
Renaming the design
After seeing several comments on my photos on Facebook, calling it a “woven” courthouse steps pattern, I decided that was better than shaded, so Woven Lanterns Courthouse Steps it is! I went on a week-long quilting retreat with some friends at the beginning of June. This became the purpose for all of the days and… Continue reading Renaming the design
More strip sets
It looks like I’ve decided this is an imperative project for the retreat I’m going to be attending soon. I’m obsessed with cutting enough strip sets to make the entire quilt, not just get it started, which is super-ambitious. I think I have all of the light sets cut and clipped, and have been working… Continue reading More strip sets
Scrapping it up
Here is a recent shot of my design wall before I had to take down the blocks to make room for other things. Left to right, there’s a sliver of Tula’s Bloomers behind a flannel-backed tablecloth that I had to hang so I could keep it on the design wall in iplace, but still have… Continue reading Scrapping it up
No more mysteries
Especially this one. Everything about working on this mystery quilt has gone wrong. For every clue, I cut pieces wrong. Or sewed them wrong. Or had major difficulty in sewing them together. But mostly I cut them wrong. Every. Single. Clue. When I started doing that with Clue 3, even though I read it through… Continue reading No more mysteries