Making plans

The truth about longarming: Part 2

Sep 10, 2016Carmit5 CommentsLongarm, Making plansHandiquilter, Longarm, longarm quilting, practice, spider web quilt

I ended my last post about longarming with the rather vague promise to set myself specific longarming goals, and though I didn’t articulate them, I was following them. My first goal was to longarm a bobbin a day, which I did for a full week after the post. I had no specific plan, just to…

The Truth About Longarming: Part 1

Jul 25, 2016Carmit5 CommentsLongarm, Making plansLongarm

The truth about longarming is that I’m scared of it. It’s been nearly a year since I got my longarm and so far I’ve longarmed one large quilt (badly), no more than half a dozen practice pieces (middlingly), and one mini-quilt (not too badly, actually). I’m struggling to remember when I even turned the machine on last.…

Climbing out of the shambles

Aug 17, 2015Carmit1 CommentMaking plans, Sewing studio

Since finishing my Fade to What Now? quilt, I’ve been restless. I’d been working on it for a long time and once I was done, I wanted to sew all the things, but couldn’t quite settle on one thing. I don’t tend to work on more than one or two projects at a time, so…

All the things

Mar 7, 2015CarmitMaking plans, Quilted projects, Tula Pink, Tula Pink City Sampler Sew-Along

Yeah, yeah. Sew your stash, finish-along, quilt-along, WIP Wednesday, Finish it up Fridays, quilting resolutions. Whatever. I’ve committed to none of these for 2015, but what I am trying to do is sew more regularly, and not just on the weekend. Or if not to sew, then to do something sewing related at least every day.…