Somewhere, I read a line something quite like the following: “Be sure you have plenty of solid fabrics in your stash – if all you have is a bunch of crazy/adorable prints, you’ll leave yourself nowhere to go.” I seem to be running into that problem currently. While I’ve started rounding out my “large print” [...]
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 [...]
I was just surfing around Sew, Mama, Sew and happened to check out the quilting photo pool. Wow, look at this: I like the swirly quilting, as well as the way she pieced everything – this must have been quite difficult. This is the Flickr link to the quilt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessicasquiltingstudio/3838350840/in/pool-smsquiltingmonth Holy wow, look at this [...]
No, the first one isn’t finished, but I like variety, changing things up, doing more than one thing at once. I’m really excited about this one, because I found some positively fantastic fabrics for it. My favorite, a gorgeous light green stripe, is proving to be the most difficult to work with, though, as the [...]