When piecing by hand, I’ve always tried to get my quilter’s knot slightly away from the end of a seam so that I don’t have to deal with it at an intersection when joining other pieces. A while ago, a friend … Continue reading
Over the past week or so, I’ve been stitching these. In the space of about an hour, I can stitch close to 20 of these little 2″ Drunkard’s Path units. There are 66 of them in this photo. Of the … Continue reading
While the temporary design wall was available, the Summer Picnic Dish was put up for a photo. At that point, no decision was yet made as to whether it would be a lap quilt or bed runner. A few more … Continue reading
When I had the batt taped to the wall as a temporary design wall, I put up all 8 of the finished batik 6″ sunflower blocks. The centre pale yellow one may need to be set aside for a small … Continue reading
While I had the temporary design wall up on the weekend, I decided to see how the Tiffany Lamp blocks looked. Clearly I need to make more, probably another 7 of them. I was surprised that there are so few … Continue reading
Once again, a dark Pickled Lady. A medium one. And a light one. There is one more light one left to make. Then some batting gets taped to the wall so I can sort out the placement and work begins … Continue reading
A very dark one. A medium one. And a very light one. Four more to go and I’ll be finished with these. I think in a way I’ll be sad to finish making the little pickled clamshells for this quilt … Continue reading
While working on the pieced border, I decided that more of the ladies needed to join the party. A few minutes of fussy cutting/printing and I had all I needed for the extra Pickled Ladies. First up is this pair. … Continue reading
As usual around here, there were fabric bits scattered about last night. Could I play with them? Oh, no! They were for sunflowers, she said, or pickles or … wait a minute. Pickles? Since when is she sewing pickles? I … Continue reading
One of the many things that I’ve been working on, on and off, over the past week or so has been making more of the units for the Summer Picnic Dish quilt. I love putting together these pieced melon/arc units … Continue reading
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