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!
Technique of the week: How much quilting should I do?
This post is in response to The Finer Nation’s “Ugh–Crappy Modern Quilting” because, really, she makes a good point about the role of quilting and what it does. I know by now you’ve seen all sorts of modern quilts and the quilting on them. From dense to sparse, quilting itself covers a wide range of […]
Another book win
I have had Eli Leon’s book Who’d a Thought It: Improvisation in African-American Quilt Making on my Amazon wish list for years, and after the workshop at DSQ when I got to see it in person, I realized I should just go ahead and buy the darn thing. Except, now the used copies weren’t in a […]
Inspiration from a dear friend
A good friend of ours from college, Jeff, sent me a cryptic note on facebook the other day, that he’d found something for me, and merry-early-Christmas. I had *no* idea what he was talking about, but kept an eye on the mail, as requested. Jeff and I had been talking about how I look to […]
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