I wrote about the Missing U quilt from the book Sunday Morning Quilts about a thousand years ago and in a pretty prescient comment I said I might finish it sometime this century. I finished it four years later, with a lot of help from bee mates. This particular block really lends itself to a…
In the second class with Angela Walters, we tackled borders and backgrounds. Angela also offers this as a Craftsy class. We started with a wavy line design that could be used as is or could be modified to add more interest, for example, a ribbon candy or wishbone filler. Most everyone can quilt a wavy…
Last year I went to the European Patchwork Meeting in the Val D’Argent in Alsace, France, to buy my longarm. I wanted to take at least one more longarm class before agreeing to plop down all my savings on one and this was the nearest show to me (about a five-hour drive). I knew nothing…
It’s sad that we’re in September now and I had to think back to when the Pulse night club shooting in Orlando took place. It’s a short news-cycle world we live in. At any rate, I asked the members of the Munich Modern Quilt Guild (oh, yeah, did I mention I started an MQG in…
The war on scraps: No scrap left behind
So… I’ve taken a bit of a break from blogging (bit, five years, same same) and in the interim I’ve moved, switched jobs, lived through a pandemic, lost two cats, bought a new sewing machine, and made a couple of quilts, but enough about me, let’s talk about scraps. At a recent quilt retreat I…
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