Tonight, I cut up the Kansas Troubles Snow Blossoms fat quarters to quickly put together the quilt for my mom. I fell completely in love with these fabrics as I fiddled with the pieces – I truly didn’t expect that at all. There were a few Bound to the Prairie FQ’s in there, too, and [...]
I have 45 blocks all pieced and squared… at least in one direction. The length should be 6″, the width of the quilting ruler, so they were easy to square up that way. Until this very second, I had thought they needed to be wider than they were long, which is silly.
So, I need to [...]
The package from Connecting Threads was waiting for me on the porch tonight, and I tore into it with glee. I’m sorry I always eat all of your bandwidth up with 10,000 photos…
Apparently, I was craving autumnal colors when I placed this order, and largely conventional patterns.
There is one springy and one summery pattern, as [...]
The woman who instructed me to begin my first-ever-sewing-project-since-seventh-grade with a log cabin quilt block should immediately resign her position as proprietor of a quilting store.
Shame on you, madam; shame.
While the log cabin is lovely and versatile and not immensely difficult, it is also ridiculously time-consuming and one doesn’t see a lot of progress quickly. [...]