Every so often questions and comments come from readers that I think others would like to hear my response to. That’s when I feature them on the blog. This is one of those days. Today’s questions are about quilts. Question #1 comes from Gloria. She found this vintage quilt and is wondering if someone knew the name of …
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I love February! For a lover of hearts and pink and all things Valentine’s, it’s a beautiful month even if the weather doesn’t agree! Often in the Pacific Northwest, it’s also the time of year we get what I like to call “False Spring.” We get a few days of very pretty, hopeful weather that gets all the gardening people excited…then it settles down to rain for weeks. One of the other things I love is making baby quilts and there are a whole bunch of new babies on the way this spring. I found ...
read more| I did an EQ8 tutorial earlier this week -- in celebration of Valentine's Day. The EQ tutorial shows how to draft a template that can be used to cut two pieces of fabric that could be woven together for a single basket. In the video, I share three different template options from Electric Quilt 8. Cutting manually. Creating an SVG. Exporting an image and tracing in an Electronic cutting system. I also share how I used these items with Cricut Design Space. Then learn how to weave your fabric for your own 3D basket. . |  V-Day Card using the 3D Swedish ... |
I had put this book, The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson, on my Libby waitlist and finally, after a few months of waiting, it became available. After just reading a sad Holocaust book the previous week, I was ready for something light and not so serious. Here is what Amazon had to say:“Nearly thirty …
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read moreI got some cross-stitch time in this week. Being I’m not writing as many blog posts, I have a little more time to stitch, and oh, I love it!! Thank you for that and thank you for understanding. Here is my Pet All the Dogs piece…for those of you who are cat lovers, there is …
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read moreI’ve been taking a long time to get going on the quilting on my current small quilt. I did actually start, but then I didn’t like what I’d done, so I “unquilted” it and started over with the “pondering” phase. However, I’m coming down the home stretch now, and I have to say that I’m […]
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The challenge this week was “Inside Out”. The idea was to take an element that was normallyon the inside and feature it on the outside. Once again, I struggled but half the fun of the challenges is to push yourself creatively. I ended up deciding on two inside out elements. The first was selvages. My early sewing days were in garment construction were the inside of a garment often had selvages. I used to love when a straight edge had a selvage because it meant I didn’t have to finish the edge. (This was in a pre-serger time of ...
read moreI recently finished up our stitch-along. It was Kind Words Never Die from Heartstring Samplery. It was a fun stitch and I’m so happy I stitched it. I fully finished mine this weekend and will be showing that off to you soon. With the finish of one, it’s time to announce the next stitch along. …
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read moreAnother week…more pups. Some going out and some coming in. Here’s the latest. First off you might remember the puppies that were lab and pitbull cross…the one ones where the owner called me in the middle of the night?? Well, the vet office that I work at has been adopting them out being we had …
read moreThis week was fun in my stitching. I went down and met my daughter Kayla one day and we had a stitchy hour or two together. Other than that, I didn’t have a lot of stitching time. I did make a little progress though. My goal for the week was to finish the stitching on …
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read moreRay sent me a few quilts to share with you. I always love seeing what he’s up to. This first quilt I’m showing…oh, I’d love to make one!! If you’ve been around here, you know red is my favorite color… Ray writes: The holidays gave me a break from commission quilts so I could longarm …
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read moreI’ve had this little cross-stitch piece in my to-be-finished pile for a week or so and being I’m getting the Valentine decor out, I thought I better finish it up. I had originally thought I would put it in this little frame…It was a little stark. I ended up going down to the basement to …
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read moreI’ve been in a big debate in my head on how I’ve been living my life and have decided I need to make some changes. The beauty of it all is that it’s not too late to make some changes…and I think the changes will improve my quality of life. I love everything I’m doing …
read moreIt has been 6 months since I started my Artist in Residence with the Durham Art Guild. With it coming to an end, I have a solo show with all new work March 15th – April 11th. My work for this residence explored more of my process but also looking at making pieces that may be more than just 2 dimensions.
For those that are local, I hope you can come to the Opening Reception March 15th and celebrate this journey with me. In the meantime, I’m sharing with you all the details around my show.
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read moreI didn’t get much sewing time at all. I tried to get to the sewing room all week long with no luck until noon on Sunday… Then the first thing I did was drop the box that had my little pieces in for my Tiny Nine Patch blocks. I dropped these and the container also …
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read moreI’ve started working on having Thankful Thursday posts…it’s just a random post of things that happened during my week that I am thankful for. It started after I’ve been reading The Frugal Girl blog and she has a feature called Thankful Thursday. This week I am thankful for how far I’ve come on my cancer …
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