landscape quilt

Quilting Notes

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 […]

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celestial quilt

Sewing Notes

The Decade Quilt is done. I actually finished it up on Sunday night, but haven’t been able to photograph it in anything approaching decent light until today. I started collecting the fabric for this about ten years ago. It’s all celestial or sky themed, so I decided to make it a postage stamp quilt to

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landscape quilt

Sewing Notes

So I was tooling along pretty nicely with the landscape quilt – I got the last of three ‘tree’ strips done, and all three sewn together. I pinned those at the river bed, and got ready to sew that. And that is where I hit a snag. The clear thread I currently have is absolutely

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Celestial quilt

Sewing Notes

And lo, there was bias binding in adequate amounts produced! And it has been attached to the entire front of the Decade Quilt! Yeah, note to self: when one is stopped in the middle of making bias binding from two pieces of fabric by the implosion of the second piece of fabric, make a note

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my new sewing kit

Sewing Notes

I have today off, and since baking a pie does not a full day make, I’ve done a bit of stock-taking of my sewing projects. (The pie crust should be cooled by now, so should shortly be back in pie land.) The first thing of note is my new baby. It was my ten-year anniversary

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Landscape Quilt pieces

Quilting Notes

I still had a bit of a quilting itch yesterday, though knew I wouldn’t have the time to set up the machine. So instead, I brought out my long dormant landscape quilt I’ve been working on. I’ve most recently been stuck on how to add in the forest in the middle. I had a bit

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Celestial Postage stamp quilt

Quilting Notes

With my renewed interest in sewing due to the new sewing machine, I dragged out the much interrupted celestial fabric quilt I’ve been working on for the better part of a decade (no, really. It’s a bit shaming, actually.) When I last left the quilt, I had woefully underestimated the amount of fabric I’d need

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