Month: April 2014
-
DIY moby wrap
DD#2 is 39-1/2 weeks pregnant and we are eager for little Hazel to arrive, but there was one last thing we wanted to do. DD#2 wanted a moby wrap, which is basically just a long piece of fabric that is wrapped around you to hold your baby. They’re a little pricey. We figured we could…
-
Product Review: SewEzi Sewing Table
I finally broke down and got a new sewing table for my Janome. This time around, I bought a SewEzi Portable Table. In December 2011, when George came to live with us, my Janome needed a new home so I got a portable sewing table. In many respects, I really like that table. At 40″…
-
Miami Valley Quilters Guild 2014 Show
Are you near Dayton, Ohio? Do you like quilt shows? This coming weekend my quilt guild, the Miami Valley Quilters’ Guild, is holding their biannual quilt show. There are some fabulous quilters in this guild, so you really do not want to miss this! The show will be held this coming Friday and Saturday, May…
-
Shuffling the pieces
After spending some time looking at this on my design wall, and moving pieces around, I decided it would be faster and easier to move them around in Photoshop Elements. I isolated each “block” on its own layer so I could move them around and rotate them however I wanted. As I worked, I became…
-
Next on the design wall
The UFO I finished last weekend is now folded and put away. I’ve cleaned off my work table, put away my Kona cottons, and made of the list of the colors I’ve mostly used up so I can order more. The next UFO is up on the design wall. This particular project is from a…
-
UFO no more!
Another UFO — no more!!! Somehow, finishing this piece seems like a major accomplishment. Of course, you realize, I’m using the term “finished” in the sense that the quilt top is finished, but it’s still just a top. I’m not sure I can even use the term “quilt top” since it isn’t quilted! So technically,…
-
Transforming UFOs
I’m still working on this UFO, although I haven’t had too much time to work on it the last two days. It does appear that I am making progress on transforming this from a “UFO” to a completed project. Here’s where it stands right now. I think I have three sections left to design and…
-
Attacking another UFO
Here’s another UFO (un-finished object) that I’ve decided to attack. It is from a June 2012 Nancy Crow workshop. Nancy calls these “bull’s eye quilts.” This one is so big it doesn’t fit my design wall. Each of those sections are 20″ square. I’m taping the top ones to the storage boxes that sit on…
-
Completing old projects
I decided to take a little bit of time to complete some old projects. This one was the closest to being done, so I started with it. Don’t we all love immediate gratification? I started this piece in the very first workshop I took from Nancy Crow in May 2012. Each of the panels were…
-
Coloring Grandma’s Garden
Between all my regular activities this weekend, I finally finished “Coloring Grandma’s Garden.” I fiddled with the binding because I wanted the little strip of pink to be very straight and even before I added the black and white binding. I put the hanging sleeve on as usual, but when it came time to make…