It’s a grey and drizzly day, and not at all ideal for photographing quilts, but I finished binding the Little Squares quilt last night, and I’m off to Wellington tomorrow (these are completely unrelated events, except that being in Wellington will mean I won’t get another chance to take a better photo of the quilt…
I started the quilting! I did get quite a bit further than that today, but by the time I thought to take another photo the light was no good. So you’ll just have to wait 🙂 I managed to get just over a quarter of it done, though, so I’m making good progress. And the…
I spent the afternoon basting the little squares quilt, so hopefully I’ll be able to start quilting it tomorrow. I’m so looking forward to quilting this one, both because I just love the colours so much so I want to see it finished, and also because I’ve been planning out how to quilt it. I’ve…
I finally finished the quilt top for the Little Squares quilt! SO MANY seams to match! I am starting to understand why people put sashing between quilt blocks. I’m really pleased with how it looks, though: Now I’ve just got to quilt it. I’ve got a few ideas for what I want to do, but…
Those of you who know me in real life (TM) will know that for the past year or two I’ve been muttering about how one day I’m going to suddenly cut off all my hair. Well, one day arrived… Yeah, bit of a drastic change 🙂 (Although in photos it doesn’t really look all that…
My plan to use spare half hours to sew failed the moment the really cold weather set in, because I’d forgotten just how cold the study can get in winter (for some reason to do with the way the hallway bends just before the door to the study, the warmth from the fire, which happily…
Finished making the nine-patches. All 113 of them. I’m slowly getting better at getting all the seams to match up with each other properly (nine-patches are very good practice for that!). I haven’t got as far as actually sewing the blocks together (too much of a social life this weekend, going out to a Toastmasters…
Ages ago I asked Deb Robertson how she manages to produce so many quilts while juggling work and children, and she told me she makes a lot of use of those spare half hours at the beginning and end of the day, when you can sew a few seams, or cut a few pieces, even…
…start something new 🙂 I still haven’t made up my mind about the border for the Three Dudes quilt (which (prompted by Mum asking why it was called Three Dudes, and me realising that the answer was that it was based loosely on a quilt design that was based loosely on a quilt design that…