The perfect activity when you’re stuck inside during a Sunday snow storm?    Quilt binding!    So, I just have to sew that down to the back of the quit, and this one is done!

Tried some paper piecing yesterday.    Aside from my fundamental lack of forward vision (I totally placed the colored pieces wrong to actually achieve a Circle of Flying Geese), I really enjoyed the actual technique.   I just have to pay attention up front to how I lay things out next time…

  I had yesterday off, and since we had a lovely nor’easter going on, and my family’s Thanksgiving festivities are on Friday this year, I didn’t really have anything I had to do.    So I did a lot of chores.   Including some clean out the sewing basket things.   I made the backing for the quilt

Here’s today’s project: a crib sized Yellow Brick Road quilt top from some sea themed fabrics I picked up a couple years ago.    This is something like the fourth or fifth time I’ve used this pattern – it’s deceptively complex looking, but is actually just strip quilting. I took Carol Doak’s Mastering Foundation Paper Piecing

So, having given up on the shirt I was working on, I needed a bit of a sewing win.      I’d bought some simple gray suiting fabric to make a skirt from a book that gives instructions for patternless skirts, but realized after buying it I’m pretty much a pattern girl.   Fortunately, I’ve been sitting on

So, what’s a girl to do on a dreary, rainy, Memorial Day weekend?    Sew!  (Seriously, I’m wearing a sweater and socks.    Some start of the summer season!) I made some binding and a hanger for the sunset quilt, and sewed the front of the binding on.     I’ve got the hanger positioned on the back now,

So my original plan on Sunday was to work on the shirt I cut out about two weeks ago.    I got all the way through step 2 (see, there are pre-gathers!), and saw that I hadn’t read the notions list, and therefore didn’t have single fold bias tape.     So that didn’t last very long. Since

The landscape quilt is done.    It took a little longer than I originally planned because I had to re-jigger the hanging tube.   I’d originally applied it a little lower than it ended up (above), and it just didn’t look right.    So off that came, and up it went. The only problem now?   We don’t actually

So, in other crafty news, I took out the landscape quilt again this weekend. Yesterday, I sewed all of the layers on. I also got the backing pinned on, made the binding, and got most of the binding sewed on, until I realized I had done the corners completely wrong. So I ripped those out,

So I’d gone through all the trouble of making some windmill blocks in various greens to represent the trees in my landscape quilt, and to be honest, I just wasn’t feeling it. So, I tossed them back in the landscape fabric drawer, brought out a whole bunch of greens, and did strips instead. I’m already