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Remember this Big Hexy Flower?
A look back at 2020...
January 2020
I needed a fresh start for 2020.
My sewing area went from this:
to this:
February 2020
Calving Season begins @ the Kessi Ranch
Playing with Rayon Threads
March 2020
The Turkey Vultures are BACK
Calving Season....continues:
April 2020
May 2020
June 2020
July 2020
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In recent years, Cheryl's been designing mosaic quilt patterns, made by cutting fabrics into small pieces. But even more recently, she designed fabric with the look of complex mosaics - but you can finish in a fraction of the time.
Cheryl gifted me with these FQs.
First I cut out a bunch ...
read moreLast week was Halloween, this week it's Guy Fawkes.
Guy Fawkes was a much bigger deal than Halloween in New Zealand when I was growing up. Most families bought their own fireworks and let off some sky rockets, Catherine wheels, flower pots, and double happys in the back yard. Sparklers were just for little kids!
Then sales of fireworks to the public became restricted, and city councils started putting on large displays at public venues. In Wellington they used to put a barge in the harbour and let off massive fireworks for about 15 minutes. However, because it's ...
read moreAre you a wannabe traveler, sitting at home, while your muscles and your miles (frequent flier) stagnate?
Put another way, this tutorial shows how I used fabric from Paris, and one of the blocks in my new English Paper Piecing book, "Hexagon Star Quilts," to make a coaster. It would also work as a hanging ornament. You can adapt this ...
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Remember these JUMBO fabric flowers ?
Here it is three years later
This idea isn't original to me - hanging a different quilt outside every day to entertain pandemic walkers. A quilter friend in Louisiana did it first - I saw from her posts that she and her neighbors were enjoying it. Then I heard about members of a quilt guild in Northern California, who showed off their quilts at the same time, so folks could follow a map to visit them.
Even then I might not have bothered, because hanging a quilt is a schlep! But then I needed to bring my hanging rack into our house's front room, for a ...
read moreI always have multiple projects going in all the fiber crafts that I like to do. In the quilting arena, I do machine sewing or quilting during the day. At night, I sew on my latest hexie project (trying to finish the Halloween themed quilt) or I do English Paper Piecing. During the last few months, I must admit to buying a lot of paper pieces for a variety of EPP designs. And none of them have been easy patterns to do…
I’ve been gluing and sewing double wedding ring arcs for weeks and fiddling with layouts. Here is ...
read moreYou guys, as soon as this pandemic is over and the quilt shows start up again, I need to sign up for an in-person English Paper Piecing (EPP) class. I am happy with how my EPP monogram block came out, but I'm pretty sure it should not have taken me this long to sew just the one block:
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EPP Monogram Stitched and Trimmed |
That's what I miss most about live-taught classes -- the individual feedback you get from the instructor looking at your work up close and saying things like "When your stitches get that small, you're not ... read more
In the evenings I have been doing
some hand stitching...
I'm making some headway with my baby boy quilt NewFO! I haven't cut out the four Wasabi (greenish yellow) QSTs yet, but I'm almost done piecing the rest of the blocks for this "quick and easy" project.
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Piecing is in Progress! |
I changed my mind about foundation paper piecing my center monogram block, too. I just could not abide with those extra seams that I would have in the center of my "C" if I did FPP, so this block will be my second ever attempt at English paper piecing (EPP).
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FPP Version, with Extra Seams in ... |
On Mondays I spend the day with the
Harlan Valley Quilters
@ the Quilt Palace
I am making progress on the
Horse Quilt Panel
But quarantine is an opportunity to try new things (assuming you don't have an essential job, young children, and/or a sourdough fixation). So a couple of weeks ago, I plunged into curved EPP in a big way. It turned out to be mostly easier ... read more
This week I had a little play with English Paper Piecing.
I don't have a master plan yet, I'm just going to experiment with them. That's why I chose to do English Paper Piecing rather than hand piecing. These blocks could be floating around for a while, and they will keep better with the raw ...
read moreA Finished Quilt
The English Paper Piecing continues
on this Horse Quilt Panel...
Our power has been out for several days so...
I have been english paper piecing
the borders on this horse panel quilt...
Thread Shed petunias, hollyhocks and dahlias
The deer have begun to come in the yard at night
and munch away on the petunias and hollyhocks.
Now that the power has ...
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