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Acerico anillo en metal y tela

Un viernes más y de nuevo, de fiesta, celebrando otra cosa acabada, esta vez algo sencillo, y que me parece muy original y ya veremos si útil, que sinceramente espero que sí.

Un acerico o alfiletero de lo más divertido, con tacita de té incluida, porque mira que nos gusta a las quilters tener una taza de estas, ya sea aplicada, bordada o en el mismísimo dedo!!!

Que además, me parece, que me va a ser de gran ayuda, pues no tengo arreglo, por las noches, cuando llega mi momento de coser, en el ...

Does our templates look like this? ack..

I recently spent an amazing week attending the Basics Class at Vavstuga Weaving School. In the class, we learned so much about looms, fibers, drafting, project planning and we completed four projects. And now I’m hemming them. This is the hand towel I wove.The warp is cottolin and the weft is linen.

Everything at Vavstuga is handwoven and here are the hand towels that were in the bathroom all week for our use.

Everything! Meals were served in the lovely diningroom with this (rainy) view of the Deerfield River…

… and at each meal, different cloths were spread ...

A couple weeks ago some of the Sew Bee It girls got together for a sew day, and I was reminded that our guild's charity efforts this year are Little Dresses For Africa.  One of the girls was working on hers; she's generously making multiples in cute bright splashy floral prints.

We were encouraged not to use white which would show dirt, so I had to find something in my stash that would be suitable and which I had enough of. I ended up using a coral stripe, a green vine, and a blue marble.

It’s Friday morning and I’m back at my local coffee shop (like last week), I’ve decided to try to make it a thing.  I like the change of pace and scenery for Friday mornings.  Plus, I have been working like crazy this week, and my numbers have nothing to show for it again, actually, you might notice that my numbers actually went up.  I went back and took out my 2017 Summer Sampler numbers, I decided to take those out when the top was finished like I am doing with all of my other quilts.  It feels ...

After sitting on my shelf for over a year, getting moved in January, and then sitting on the shelf for another 4 months, I have finally started quilting my original QCQAL sampler quilt. This was my second quilt along all the way back in 2014. I finished the top in 2015, and am just now getting to quilt this quilt. Here's a picture from when I put the top together originally:

Happy Friday, Quilters!  We are ending this wonderful week with another episode of our Classic & Vintage block series on YouTube, the Snail Trail quilt block.  This block has various names, including Monkey Wrench, Ocean Waves, Whirligig, and even Indiana Puzzle, but Snail Trail is the most prevalent name we found.  In any case, the swirling effect of this block can be a doozy.

There are many different ways to make this block, especially with paper piecing and templates, but we like simplifying things wherever possible while still keeping accuracy and perfect points.  We tested several different methods and sizes to ...

This Quilt pattern is made up of squares and half square triangles. The overall design is a large star pieced together like  inlaid wood. You can grab the free pattern via this PDF file.

Are you participating in the Sewcial Bee Sampler Sew Along, sponsored by the wonderful Maureen Cracknell and the talented Sharon Holland?  It has been on-going for the past twenty-one weeks with one block released each week.  There will be 25 blocks total.  I am making blocks, though I must admit to being behind by about three or four blocks at this point.  But I love the quilt I am making. I have been using fabrics from the Fleet & Flourish collection and the Garden Dreamer collection, both of which are designed by Maureen Cracknell. I have mixed in solids as needed ...

On Sunday we drove to the dump and spotted 9 eagles high up in the tree tops.  We had noticed 2 eagles there the week before so I was prepared with my camera this time but didn’t bring my super zoom lens. I’ll do that this Sunday in hopes of see them again.  There were quite a few fledglings but they were usually sitting in a different tree from their parent, until this happened!

I was told the fledglings do not develop the white head until they are around 7 years old.

Then I also spotted a beautiful ...

I've had very little time for quilting the last couple of weeks, but such is life.  I have made progress though, including my bee blocks and modern sampler blocks as well as circles of course.

First things first here is my bee block for Bee Inspired.