Remember I thought my yellow was too strong for the Celtic Solstice mystery quilt? Well, I played around with the layout I had guessed at earlier and put the units for almost two full blocks side by side. In this layout … Continue reading
Another one of the batik sunflowers. This time a turquoise one. This one doesn’t remind me of a glacier, but I’m not quite sure what it is – perhaps the Caribbean again? The back after pressing and grading the seams. … Continue reading
We may be in the grip of an Arctic vortex weather pattern, but I’m living in denial happily making sunflowers. This one is a sunny sunflower, perhaps something we’d see at the height of summer. The back, after grading the … Continue reading
I really needed some continuous stitching and curved piecing and nothing is better for that than the little 6″ sunflowers. This one makes me think of tropical waters again. And that’s a rather nice thing to be thinking about as … Continue reading
These are what I was talking about yesterday – another tiny block. The lure of the 3″ baskets was too much for me. I grabbed some ’30s scraps and a white muslin and got started. I love piecing the handles. … Continue reading
This is such a fun little unit to put together – thanks to the method Linda Franz teaches in her free download for Clue 5, I found it really quick to stitch. It’s written for machine piecing, but I adapted it … Continue reading
That’s what I’ve been doing – more chaining by hand. But this time of four-patch blocks. And they’re going together really, really quickly. Yes, I know these would be easy as could be to piece by machine for most but they’re … Continue reading
I really learned a lesson last night. And that is that by chaining by hand, I can stitch a fairly large number of the HSTs in just a couple of hours. Just over 50 of them are in that nice … Continue reading
I had to give my chaining by hand process a good workout and I’m impressed. In just slightly over two hours, I had 36 of the HSTs stitched and ready to be pressed. The picture shows the ones that were … Continue reading
How’s that for a blog post title? Made me laugh out loud! But this is all about my method of chain piecing HSTs by hand. I know, I know — chain piecing is what machine piecers do. But I’ve found … Continue reading
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