Quite a few more of the New York Beauty blocks were made over the past few weeks. Yesterday I put them all up on the design wall. With two more blocks, this would finish at 36″ x 42″. Then just … Continue reading
New York Beauties
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The Start of a Finish
By the time New Year’s Eve rolled around, this box was empty and ready for a new project in a box. That box was empty because the final 150+ 2″ Drunkard’s Path units were all stitched. But then this box … Continue reading
More 2013 Projects
One of the PIBs that I am determined to finish in 2013 is the Drunkard’s Path quilt made with the 2″ units. With that in mind, I stitched another 39 of them and now am down to needing only 154 … Continue reading
Project for 2013
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been busy printing shapes on fabrics and cutting the shapes out and now I have a new PIB – the two-colour quilt for 2013, an orange and white one. But it requires a … Continue reading
A Tiffany Lamp Block
It felt like an awfully long time since a Tiffany Lamp block had been added to the New York Beauty blocks and curved piecing with spiky bits seemed very appealing last night, so I decided to stitch this one. Which … Continue reading
Harlequin Pastel
Last night, Mr. Q.O. named the quilt I’m making with the 4.5″ Winding Ways blocks. At first I wasn’t too sure about it, but decided I do like it — so it’s now named Harlequin Pastel. I made three more … Continue reading
Pastel Winding Ways
Last night another PIB came out to play – the 4.5 Winding Ways blocks in hand-dyed fabrics. I can tell that the block placement is going to take almost as long as stitching the blocks. They are such fun to … Continue reading
Pink and Green Stars
Ever since Inklingo first came out, I’ve been a huge fan of the 60-degree diamonds. When I’m cutting fabrics for other projects, I will often cut off a small piece of fabric just for the 1″ diamonds. Iron the fabric … Continue reading
19 More Little Blocks
After that marathon of stitching hexagon flowers of many sizes, I needed some nice relaxing curved piecing to do so that’s what I worked on last night – and got 19 more of the little Drunkard’s Path units done. Only … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Quilting Gallery
It’s Quilting Gallery’s 5th birthday! Help Quilting Gallery celebrate by taking part in the birthday celebration blog hop. There are over 150 bloggers participating, each with a giveaway just in time for Christmas! You can click on the logo above … Continue reading
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