Category: Final Quilts
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Where Did Summer Go?!
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It’s not that I haven’t been working on quilts – I definitely have! It’s that summer is always a little shorter than we think it’s going to be when we’re looking at it in June. I was laid off in June, and I told myself I’d use the time of…
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Label Your Quilts!
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Honestly, I am the last person in the world who should be lecturing anyone about putting a label on a quilt. Very few of my quilts have them. I am working on changing that fact. One of the things I realized when I put three of the quilts in my…
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College Fjord is Done!
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Sewing buttons on with a machine is SO much easier and less painful! I really wanted to get it done before a year had passed since I took the photo (June 23, 2024), and I just squeaked it under the wire. Just as a reminder, here’s the original image: And…
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Catching Up
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It’s been a while. In late February, I discovered that there was an issue with my website’s hosting service (although I didn’t know exactly what the issue was at the time). It took several months to resolve, and I have had to recreate my entire website over the last week.…
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Horseshoe Bend Is Done!
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I finished the last of the binding on the Horseshoe Bend quilt while I was on vacation a couple of weeks ago (finally catching up on the blog), and I’m really happy with it. The binding wasn’t quite done when this picture was taken, but it was close enough. It’s…
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The Abstract Iceberg is Done!
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I found an evening to quilt the abstract iceberg quilt, which took a lot less time than I thought it would. As a result, I was able to get the binding machine-stitched on that night as well. And a few nights later, the hand stitching was completed. I was even…
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Two Steps Forward
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I put the border on the abstract iceberg quilt. And then I put it up on the design wall, and I stared at it for a bit. And I went and did something else for a while, waited a couple of days, and then came back and stared at it…