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Sruti top done!
Done! Well, except for quilting and binding, but I'm doing very simple quilting because the top is so busy (and because I only know how to do simple quilting). It is loud and bright, but I think a...
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A few things
I picked up some irresistible scraps from a big bin at a homewares store the last time I visited DD1 in Berkeley. Small pieces, big prints, no way I could think of to use them. How about fussy cutting...
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Otto has a baby brother
Yes, indeed, it's been awhile since I've been in blogland, and I hope to catch up with you all soon. I have quite a few quilting projects underway! Remember little Otto? I made him a trip around the...
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James
The letters are now a word, a name! Joining the letters into a word is my favorite part of word play -- so many options! Well, one of my favorite parts -- I like choosing the fabrics, and deciding on...
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Potholders
I made these potholders a few weeks ago, and am about to make some more.I played around with lots of things -- they're the best size for practicing, and you get something useful in the end, too. The...
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James's quilt is ready to be quilted
IMade some wonky stars with the fabrics used in James's name. In the star above, every "square" in the 9-patch is a different size -- whew, that takes awhile!Made some more wonky stars.And then pieced...
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Colorful Coins
I love scrappy, I love color, and I love using up odds and ends. At one of our Project Linus worknights a few of us dug through our string bins and started sewing coin stacks by color. We got a few...
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If you can't make it to a quilt show ...
...the next best thing might just be a computer museum!This is not a quilt, it's part of an old-fashioned computer. (And isn't it odd to think of computers as being old fashioned?) Many of the computer...
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Flimsies and fun
How do you recover from knee surgery? Well, the first few days, you keep your knee elevated -- but then you keep your spirits up by quilting!I can't do anything where I have to crawl around on the...
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Twists and embroidery
My friend G has an embroidery machine with some mola-inspired designs and she made this one for me! It's beautiful -- much more vibrant than it shows in the photo. I think it will make a great panel on...
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At home with Sweet Baby James
How cute is sweet baby James? Adorable! See what he's lying on? That's right, that's his very own quilt! This is the "back" (aka, the fun part). My friend Joe Filer quilted it and did an amazing...
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Brenda's Big Birthday B
Happy Birthday, Brenda!Brenda at Scraps and Strings is having a Big Birthday, and she's asking fellow Bloggers to send her a Big B for her Birthday quilt. Happy Birthday fabric seemed in order, so...
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Another B
I wanted to make a B with a spiral base for Brenda's Big Birthday -- I imagined lots of swirls and elegance. Not so easy to stitch since I don't do applique! But when I looked at my drawings, the swirl...
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The other New York City quilt show
I was in NYC in March to visit my daughter and my inlaws, but our flight home was the day before the big red and white quilt exhibit opened. Aargh! Fortunately, it's The Year of the Quilt at the...
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Yvonne Porcella quilt exhibit
I so lucked out! I saw in The Quilt Show newsletter that Yvonne Porcella was having a quilt exhibit on Stanford campus right when I was heading to California to visit my daughter, just a few minutes...
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Accidental Landscape
So much fun! Karen Eckmeier taught her accidental landscapes class at my guild recently, and I made this.It's not quite finished -- I want to tack down the wave so it looks like it's breaking on the...
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Jelly rolls and t-shirts
Things do pile up when I don't post! I have several projects underway, but here are just two. First, I saw the Jelly Roll races video and thought it would be a fast, fun way to make quilts for Project...
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Zig zags
I really hated that strippy quilt I posted yesterday, so I am inspired to post something I like better! I wanted to put a zig-zag border around my sticks and stones quilt, and thought maybe I'd use...
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Love and a swap
I'd been putting off making a block for Julie's White Coat Project because I didn't know how to do it. I decided I wanted to make something using selvages since Julie has made quilts with them, but...
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Circle of Life
There is so much exciting stuff going on in the quilting world that I jumped at the chance to join the newly formed Modern Quilt Guild (Central Illinois chapter). Our first challenge was to make a...
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Two Kaleidoscopes
Rather than playing catch up with this blog, I'll start by posting my two most recent finishes, both of them made following Ricky Tims'Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts instructions. He explains the process...
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Challah covers
My daughter got married this summer and when her future mother-in-law invited me to a bridal shower last spring, I wanted to give her something personal but also something she would use. Something...
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Another way to label a quilt
I hate labeling quilts, probably because I'm not very good at it. I should learn to print one on fabric, though I hate stitching those on. I had seen somewhere that a quilter had machine embroidered...
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Article 1
I have not been playing catch up on this blog as I had intended, so here's the latest quilt instead. Just finished piecing this top to the size of a baby quilt (currently 36" square). Babies like high...
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Elephants!
I love this elephant block! The elephants' trunks join in a snail's trail. It's a tough block to piece, and you can see I didn't do a perfect job. I'll have to fix it a bit, but I absolutely love the...
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