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
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
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
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
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
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
Yes, I said winners of my giveaway for the Quilting Gallery 5th Birthday. There are two Inklingo gift certificates being given away! Santa’s elves decided there should be a second winner. While Baxter loves to play with little pieces of … Continue reading
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
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
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
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