It's Charity Challenge time again! My October Alternating Nine Patch quilt is almost ready to go - I still need to add the binding. I was so tempted to do some diagonal straight line quilting on this one, but I really need to practice my...
Yesterday's goal was to finish my Loosely Curved quilt (see my last post). I got some great ideas from my readers about how to quilt this little quilt. I decided to quilt a different free motion design in each color of the quilt. Linda had...
While most of this Memorial Day weekend was filled with recovering from my cold, a family get together and some vegetable garden planting, I managed to fit in a bit of sewing yesterday. I finished putting the Loosely Curved quilt top together. These little shapes are...
Subtitled: A lesson in value and reality. I've had this stack of pretty pinks in my stash forever. For this month's Sew Solid Sunday, they just had to become a spring-y mini quilt. I haven't worked with triangles in a while so I thought a mess...
Wherein I try free motion quilting! Not too bad for my first try, but plenty of room for improvement. I've been wanting to learn to FMQ for ages, but just kept putting it off due to more urgent items on the to-do list and a...
Janome Horizon 7700 QCP or I could have titled this post "It's about time" because...