Do you have an old cradle that you’d like to update with new bedding to give to a little one in your life? Or perhaps you’ve purchased a new doll cradle that didn’t come with any bedding. In this post, I’ll share how I went about making the bedding set for the doll cradle that I had been saving to…
Now that one of the larger secret Christmas projects is finished, I’ve decided to pull out an old WIP. I made this baby quilt top a little over three years ago. I actually made two of these; one with teddies on a yellow background and this one on the green because I wasn’t sure which I wanted to send to…
The past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to complete a major Christmas project. I had purchased the flannel for the project from Hancock Fabrics a week or so ago but when I went to iron it to get it ready to use, I discovered several flaws in the fabric itself. So I had to make a trip to Hancock’s…
As I mentioned at the end of my last post about my Disappearing Nine Patch Quilt, for the past several days I’ve been working on secret Christmas projects. I won’t be able to share those until after Christmas. Instead I’ll share this little trick I learned recently. Perhaps you already know about this, but it was an Ah ha moment…
The Disappearing Nine Patch top is done. I completed sewing on the second border late last night. Before I show the photos we took this morning, I thought I’d share some quick stats. As I mentioned in my original post about this quilt, I purchased the fabric quite a while ago with the intention of making it into a quilt. …
Last night, I sewed on the all the vertical sashing strips and this morning we took this photo: Then this afternoon, I sewed on the top and bottom sashing and this is what it looks like now: Isn’t it stunning! And the photo really doesn’t do it justice. The black sashing makes the colours in the blocks just pop and…
Well… last night’s sewing session for this month’s Friday Night Sew In started out really well.  I was so pleased to find that I only had to trim just the tiniest of slivers off my blocks to square them up to 13.5”.   Giving myself a little imaginary pat on the back, I thought to myself, “Sue, I think you’ve finally…
I’ve been trying to use up my stash of fabric and fabric scraps because there is likely a move in our not too distant future and the less I have to pack, the better. I don’t have a large stash because I’ve done this every time we’ve moved for the last 11 years. Before that the military moved us and…
Heidi, one of the wonderful ladies who co-host the Friday Night Sew In, drew numbers of all those who signed up for last Friday’s Sew In and I won! The prize is a cute little FNSI pin cushion that Heidi made and a four pack of beautiful Verna fat quarters. I’m already thinking up things I can make with them.…
Last night during the FNSI, I didn’t get as far along with the Disappearing Nine Patch quilt blocks as I had hoped. Things came up during the week and I didn’t get all the blocks sewn together until late Friday afternoon. Most of Friday evening was then spent pressing and cutting apart the nine patch blocks.   Here is what the…