The Octagon Stars doll bed quilt is growing. Now it’s approximately 10″ x 23″. I thought it would start to grow faster once I got those first two rows done and I was right. Now I’ll add another row of … Continue reading
Octagon Stars and More
Category Archives: hand piecing
Apple Cores
For some reason, I don’t like using the sewing machine at night. It may have something to do with the lighting where my sewing machine is but, whatever the reason, I do try to avoid it in the evenings. So … Continue reading
Case of the Secret Garden – A Finish!
What does a picture of an empty box have to do with a finish? Well, Saturday morning this box was full of the finished blocks from the mystery. By Saturday night, this is what the box looked like – empty. … Continue reading
New York Wheel Stitching and Stitching and …
That’s what I was doing last night. Stitching all the little quarter circles on to the arcs. That part is now done for all the blocks. Then it was on to adding the large corners to each arc. This stack … Continue reading
Octagon Stars Growing
The octagon stars have grown and now measure 24″ by 7″. I couldn’t resist working on this last night and, after this picture was taken, added all the red octagons and diamonds so I can start joining the next row … Continue reading
Clue 6 Finished
I know I don’t normally blog on weekends but I am so excited that I got all 24 of the remaining arcs for the Case of the Secret Garden mystery quilt sewn together by machine that I just had to … Continue reading
Machine Piecing
I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I’m going to fall far, far behind on the Case of the Secret Garden if I insist on hand piecing the entire thing. And I don’t want to let this one languish … Continue reading
And the Answer Is …
… no, I didn’t get the piecing for Clue 6 of the Case of the Secret Garden mystery quilt finished. Not even close! And Clue 7 comes out today. I made 96 of these pieced spokes for the arcs last … Continue reading
Am I Going to Get Caught Up …
Follow my blog with Bloglovin … and finish Clue 6 before Monday when Clue 7 in the Case of the Secret Garden mystery quilt comes out? I don’t know! There was no printing this week. Just lots of stitching of … Continue reading
A Little Diversion
I knew those apple cores I found in the treasure drawer last night were going to be hard to resist. Really, really hard to resist. At first I thought I could limit myself to sorting them into dark and medium/light … Continue reading
Quilt Obsession 