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
Tiffany and Monet Blocks
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Another Trio of Pickled Ladies
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
Another Group of Fabrics
This group of fabrics intrigues me. Some of them could easily go into the New York Beauty blocks while two of the others would go well with the first group of fabrics shown on Monday. Or I could keep them … Continue reading
Another Trio of Pickled Ladies
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
A Few More Pickled Ladies
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
Fabric Inspiration
This group of fabrics has been out on my sewing table now for a few weeks. I’m contemplating making a small double wedding ring quilt using them. Or perhaps one of the orange peel variations. Or possibly another Dresden Plate … Continue reading
Fabric Flying and Cat Flying
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
Summer Picnic Dish … Again
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
Sunflowers in Yellow and Blue
This one is destined to be a little quilt on its own, I think. It’s a very pale sunflower that will be lost in the sea of brighter batiks I’ve been using to make the batik sunflowers, but I think … Continue reading
Fabric Spaghetti
Well, that’s what I think this looks like — a huge pile of fabric spaghetti. What on earth possessed me? I watched this video from Gene Black’s blog post “Cutting Bias Binding“. Actually, I had watched it quite a while … Continue reading
Quilt Obsession 