Here is my latest project: The best thing is with pressing to the white (I know, goes against the grain) the seams all nestle. I love nestling seams! I found this pattern while surfing Pinterest and traced the pattern back to Ramona at Doodlebugs and Rosebuds quilts. It caught my eye immediately as something I’d… Read More »
I finished two quilts yesterday! One with machine binding on both the front and back and one sewing the binding to the front of the quilt and hand sewing it to the back of the quilt. This DOUBLES my UFO finishes from 2 to 4 for the year (plus one non UFO finish)! Not very… Read More »
At long last Stars in the Darkening Sky is a finish. We quilted it at Whirls n Swirls and used a wool batting. I finished it off with a scrappy binding and even managed to find some of the fabric from the star points to use for this! This is my second UFO finish for… Read More »
A month or two ago I started making 16 patch blocks using 2 inch squares when I should have been using 2.5″ squares of fabric. I made a lot of blocks before I realised I had made an error. Not a world ending problem at all though some rather pithy language did occur at the… Read More »
I needed to make 44 – 16 patch blocks to make a border on a quilt. I’d made more than half of them when I pulled the quilt out and realised I’d been making the blocks with 2″ squares when quilt was based on 2.5″ squares. That was a fun moment – NOT. Out came… Read More »