Did you see Jolene’s (Blue Elephant Stitches) recent blog post Quilting Through a Book? Jolene posted that she is planning to make all the quilts from Simply Retro by Camille Roskelley, then she invited her readers to join her by either making all the quilts from Camille’s book or any other book of their choice. No […]
Bonnie Christine from Going Home to Roost is currently hosting the Hello, Bear project challenge. The challenge is to use anything from her Hello, Bear line, which includes not only fabric but also stencils, wall decals and wallpaper. The timing is perfect because my son is in need of a new quilt and I’d been thinking how great these […]
Starting a quilt is one of my favourite parts of the whole quilt making process. This quilt is particularly fun to start, the fabric choices have been made, there’s just the cutting and piecing to focus on. I’m using template plastic to mark the fabric and scissors to cut each piece out. It sounds […]
I’m so good at leaving things to the last moment! Here’s my last moment entry to the Blogger’s Quilt Festival hosted by Amy from Amy’s Creative Side. I’m entering my Sugar Loaf Pillow in the mini-quilt category. Since I last blogged about this pillow, it’s been received by Sami, my partner in the Great Pillow Fight Swap. The idea for […]
The X-Factor pillow swap run by Tiina (Cottilello on Flickr) is one of my favourite swaps. This swap works differently from any other swap I’ve taken part in. First of all, each round has a theme. The latest round was all about the drunkard’s path block. The other twist is that partners are not assigned until […]
I finished my Marsala Quilt for the Pantone 2015 Quilt Challenge! I seriously did not think I would! It wasn’t an easy process and the quilt turned out nothing like my original plan. My first problem in making this quilt was that I didn’t have any Marsala fabrics. No problem, I thought, I’d pick some up on my trip […]
Hooray, my daughter finally has a bag for her ballet gear. A year ago I did some pattern testing for Juliet from Tartan Kiwi, the pattern was these paper pieced ballet shoes. I knew I wanted to turn them into a ballet bag but couldn’t decide what bag to make. Then a few weeks ago Svetlana asked for testers for her […]
After a dismal performance against my first quarter goals I wasn’t sure whether to attempt a Q2 list. But I’ve been through my list of projects and there are quite a few that I would like to finish in the next few months and a little accountability is always a good thing! So here goes… 1. […]
My daughter’s Penny Patch quilt is finished. Actually it was finished a few months back, I’m just now getting around to blogging about it. Luckily I took some photos back when it was finished so you can see how it looked before it was dragged around for a few months. I made this quilt as part of the Penny Patch Quilt Along […]
Back in January when I wrote my first quarter Finish Along goals, I optimistically thought I might be able to finish up four of my current WIPs this quarter. I’ve made no progress at all on three of those projects but I did achieve one my of goals, it was the one project that I really wanted to finish so I’m happy […]
