Karen over at Sew Many Ways has a post and link party up for people to share how they organize and store their thread and bobbins. For years and years, I made do with those plastic boxes with the plastic rods for storing my thread and the small plastic boxes with the rounded spaces for my bobbins. When I was…
As I mentioned on Monday, all I needed to do was add the borders and my 4th of July picnic quilt top would be complete. I got the narrow border in Kona Snow added yesterday and I finished adding the second border in the feature fabric this morning. I really, really like how it turned out. And I’m so…
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Ours was a busy one. Saturday morning, I did a bit of fabric shopping at the wonderful quilt shop Sew Sisters. I don’t know how the owner does it, but her prices are so close to US prices on many of the items that this will be my go to quilt shop for…
Yesterday afternoon, I spent the afternoon sewing the blocks for my Independence Day picnic quilt. This is proving to be a fun, easy quilt to make. I started sewing blocks around noon and finished pressing the last block about 5:30. With a break for a late lunch and to go grocery shopping, I’d say it took about 4 hours to…
I’ve been telling myself that I didn’t need a cutting mat, rulers and rotary cutter because I had all those things packed away in storage. But there were projects that I wanted to work on that required those things to be able to cut them out without having to go through the laborious process of making templates of each piece…
Wishing all my American readers a Very Happy and Safe 4th of July!
I hope everyone in Canada had a wonderful Canada Day. I know that our family sure did. Last week, our middle daughter noticed that Groupon had a half price special running for two hour tours on the Tall Ship Kajama and e-mailed me the info. After talking it over, we decided to buy four tickets and then book ourselves on…
Way back in September of last year, I made this little fabric coin purse. You can read more about it here. But I only had one coin purse frame and that frame had been purchased to make the purse pictured below. I was hoping that I’d find a purple frame to use for the dragonfly one, but I wasn’t able…
Our second quilt shop stop was The Quilt Box in Dry Ridge, KY. This is one of my favourite shops to explore not just for the wonderful selection of fabrics but because it’s a pretty drive to get there. (I’ve written about this shop before here and here.) The directions to the shop say: “Take I-75 Exit 159 Dry Ridge.…
When traveling I like to break up a long road trip by stopping in at quilt shops along the way, so on the first leg of our trip back up to Canada, we stopped into Mammaw’s Thimble in Knoxville, TN. I’d stopped in there once before on one of our trips and was impressed with the wide selection of quilt…