I’ve finished hand basting my Disappearing Nine Patch and it’s ready to quilt. For the DP9 blocks I’ve decided to free motion quilt them alternating between dragonflies and butterflies. So I’ve been doodling some dragonflies. As you can see… some of my dragonflies are pretty strange looking but the doodling helped me to figure out how I could fmq in…
Middle daughter and I popped in to our favorite local quilt shop on Saturday just before closing and we couldn’t believe how busy it was. While chatting with the owner we discovered that they’d been run off their feet for the last two weeks with quilters from all over stopping in to pick up their pattern in the Row by…
Can you believe the year is half over?!! Time to really focus on getting projects finished. I didn’t get nearly as many things done as I had listed on my 2015 Finish Along Q2 list; which I will admit was definitely overly ambitious. But I did manage to complete 3 small projects and two larger projects so I’m going to…
Our middle daughter has been coming to stay on the weekends and this past weekend she had Friday off making it a three day weekend for her. On Thursday morning, she texted me to say that time had gotten away from her and she hadn’t been able to pack that morning and wouldn’t have time to go home after work,…
Last week’s adorable fish had some friends on the same vintage Workbasket transfer sheet. Now they can all join each other on an under sea adventure! This pattern can be downloaded as a pdf here. Welcome to Stitchery Link Party #13! For those visiting for the first time, you’ll want to check out not only this week’s party but…
We lived in the States for too long and came to love it too much to not celebrate the 4th of July even though we’re back living in Canada for the time being. So…. Happy Independence Day! Have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend with much Aloha!! For those who might like to know about the different pieces in our…
This quilt top is my oldest unfinished quilt and will be my July goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes (ALYofF.) I started it back in February 2011 and finished it in March 2011. You can read my progress posts here, here, here and here. Here are a couple more views taken from different angles: At the time I finished…
My Forest Friends quilt was my May and then my June “A Lovely Year of Finishes Goal” and there were times in the last week that I wondered if it would end up being my July goal as well. Before starting to do the free motion quilting on it, I tested the tension and stitch setting on a practice sandwich. …
Last week, on June 21st, the 2015 Row by Row Experience kicked off with hundreds of quilt shops across the US and Canada taking part. The event runs from June 21st to September 8th. Each participating shop offers a free pattern for their row that they’ve designed to go with this year’s H2O theme. Most of the shops are also…
There’s been a new addition to my Under the Sea crazy quilt block since I last shared a photo of it. When I was trying to draw the sea star on the sea bottom I couldn’t get it looking the way I wanted, so our middle daughter drew it for me so that the arms look like it’s crawling over…