Archives for August 2013
Tree of Life–Work in Progress
A while back, I had written about the quilt commission I had for a tree of life, where I planned to use Rose Hughes’s Fast Piece Applique technique. In that time, though, I realized that I had envisioned it as a *really* raw edge applique, to be completed on my longarm rather than on my […]
Scrappers, Lumpers, and Splitters
I have been reading up on scrap storage because I feel like I need to be better about using mine, and also because I love people’s work with scraps and want to incorporate that joyfulness and dynamism more into my ow. If anything, I am more of a minimalist right now, which is funny considering […]
Today–batik prep!
Fill a bowl with the hottest water you can stand, and add a few drops of detergent. Squish around. Let sit, and watch the water turn colors. Rinse. Squeeze. Repeat until water turns clear. Dry on hot. No surprises on your quilt top this way!
Winding Down
I’ve been hard at work this summer, but it has not been so much sewing-wise as it has been family-wise and me-wise. If you just want to read about the sewing and stuff, skip to the end 🙂 Family-wise, we’ve been filling out our summer passport. And more importantly, we spent a month on swim […]
Modern Quilts Unlimited Fresh Ideas! Block Challenge
Woohoo! Just found out that I was one of twelve finalists for the Fresh Ideas! block challenge hosted by Modern Quilts Unlimited! Sweet… yet, sadly, not one of the three winners. I’m still pretty excited, though. My block will be on their website in September, and I will post a link when it’s there. Once […]
Recommendations?
SO I was sewing along on a binding when all of a sudden I heard a sound that can only be described as “”sproi-chunk”, and my tension assembly just … stopped working. At all. Upon further investigation, a tiny piece of plastic fell off into my hand from inside the machine. I’ll be dropping it […]
“Binding”, the Greatest Hits!
I’ve been working like crazy to get some customer stuff done so that I can get a piece of my own finished for the Modern challenges at MQX (Have something to enter? You can see all the rules and deadlines here for the display section and here is a link to the catalog where you […]
First week of August–in pictures
See the practice quilt from last year?
Margerita time!
Just sayin’. This is my fella’s recipe. Have a beautiful summer weekend evening!