My Steps Quilt top is complete! I’m really liking this. A perfect sewing project in a stressful time, easy, repetitive and colourful! All I worried about while sewing it was trying not to have two of the same colour touch each other and while I managed for the most part there are 3 or 4… Read More »
I have been doing a lot of sewing this weekend – what else is there to do really? Housework? Well, I guess … but quilting always wins over that if I have anything to say about it. I have enough of my Step Blocks (I decided to name them) to make both quilt layouts that… Read More »
The last few weeks have been stressful, what with being home 24/7, worrying about family, friends, community, country and indeed the world – why worry on a small scale when you can go big, right? Luckily we are both able to work from home and and so far haven’t been laid off. We are slowly… 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 »
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 »