Quilting Challenge: July
I cheated this a bit and sewed July’s patch in June! Because I’m currently on the road so I used the brilliant pre-set publishing option on the blog and set this up a few weeks ago! Delightful....
View ArticleQuilting Challenge: August and September
I’ve been true to this challenge all year, having made a patch for each month thus far. But while August got made, the poor dear never got photographed or blogged! So I’m catching up … onwards with my...
View ArticleFinishing with an Ochre Wedding Dress
For the past few weeks I have been swept up in a delightful, merciless whirl of sewing gigs, family cottage time and motivation-crushing heat, but right now I do believe it’s time to catch you up on...
View ArticleQuilting Challenge: March
In the continuation of my 2012 Quilting Challenge to myself I present my March quilting pattern, the acorn! It’s joined here in birth order by leaf and apple, January and February’s offerings...
View ArticleSharpie tie dye & quilt progress
Anutie Maria, my lovely sis, came over today and brought Beyblades as a birthday gift for Rudi. I only know about these toys because I have a 7-year-old nephew. If you don’t know and you want to know,...
View ArticleQuilting Challenge: April
April is flying past me, like a train with cars bearing birthday, Easter, bathroom-construction, birthday, teething-fever, bathroom-construction, sewing-gig, taxes, birthday, sewing-gig, birthday,...
View ArticleAflutter Over the New Quilt
I finally finished the bird-patterned quilt I’ve been planning and working on over the past few months. This was the project that kept getting bumped aside for other more pressing matters and crafts....
View ArticleQuilting Challenge: May
May is almost done, how is this possible?! For my 2012 Quilting Challenge, May’s contribution is a bit of a cheat, I’ve been quilting this shape for ages, but I need it in my arsenal of designs! It’s...
View ArticleQuilting Challenge: June [and musings on “home”]
I have been thinking about home a lot lately, perhaps because I am on the cusp of a big driving trip across the country to Alberta where I grew up. So I feel certain that June’s 2012 Quilting Challenge...
View ArticleThe Berlin Baby Quilt
This spring I accepted one of the most heartfelt quilt commissions I’ve ever had the pleasure to receive. In my head I call it the Berlin Baby Quilt — but really, it should probably be called the...
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