leilani

Happy 2024 to you! Today I celebrate 31 wonderful years of quilting. Onward and upward!

I have a confession about rulers—I buy them and then never use them. Maybe I’m just a collector.

I always have the best intentions when I buy a ruler or a template set. I find I buy most of them when I go to a quilt show. I see what I can do with them, excitedly buy them, encourage my companions to buy them so we can do it together, get home and hang them on the Ruler Pegboard of Shame where they ...

added by Shari - a prim and (not so) proper quilter 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , cindy , coming soon! , fabric , friends , goals , katrina , la passacaglia , leilani , paper piecing , quilting , rulers rule , stitch & b!tch sampler

And finally, we sew! ... and notes about living in the moment.

A week ago on Sunday morning I headed into the studio, cleaned and oiled The Beaut, and started sewing.

Section A was first (obs), and I stitched verrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy slowly. I picked up a little bit of speed with Section B, and was sailing along by Section C. Not at max speed, mind you; more like, I know where I'm going and this is good.

LeiLani's head laid out for piecing

Because it's paper piecing, it's all straight lines and no Y- or partial seams; and ...

added by Shari - a prim and (not so) proper quilter 1 year, 11 months ago. under cindy , freezer paper , friends , leilani , living in the moment , paper piecing , progress , quilting , stitch & b!tch sampler , the process

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