I began webbing this quilt top together at the Piecemakers’ Sit n Sew last Friday, and I finished sewing the last seams and stay stitching around the outside of the quilt this week. I just love quilts like this which are what I call “planned scrappy” – it’s definitely made from mostly small scraps, but… Continue reading Sand Castles top pieced
Category: Quilting
Quilting and quilting-related projects
Soccer balls and rainbows
I finished the quilt top Monday afternoon. I’m really happy with how it turned out. It used up a good portion of the fabric (the rest of which I can use in scrap quilts), and I have a few more fabrics to challenge myself to design a quilt (or use in an existing pattern) and… Continue reading Soccer balls and rainbows
Little hedgehogs
I finally finished the last half-bloom in my Tula’s Bloomers quilt. I still have three more blooms to piece. This one I did over the course of several non-consecutive evenings. The little hedgehog (more formally known as Who’s Your Dandy) is from the Tiny Beasts fabric collection. I used the Glimmer colorway. The other fabrics… Continue reading Little hedgehogs
My quilt challenge
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
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