#1 Cabin Window – Maria Elkins

31 Dec 2013

Review of 2013

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, #1 Missed Connections, Acceptance, Push-ups, DD#2, #2 Growth, #3 Requisite Red, Experimental, #4 Reaching, #5 Perseverance, Family, #6 Teal Trials, Published, Quilt shows, Surrender, Teaching, Windblown | 0

It’s nice to look back and reflect a bit, so here’s my short review of 2013. Thankfully it was a bit less eventful than 2012. There were several things I split my attention between. I spent quite a bit of … Continued

16 Jul 2013

Cabin Window accepted

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I opened up my email today and was completely surprised by an acceptance letter! It may sound funny, I suppose, but I sort of forgot that I submitted Cabin Window for consideration for the 2013 IQA show in Houston. How … Continued

28 Feb 2013

Tutorial: What goes on a quilt label

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, Documenting quilts, Tutorials | 2

While I was putting the final touches on “Cabin Window” last week, there was a Facebook question about making quilt labels. That made me think of some of the different ways I’ve made labels through the years. I guess it … Continued

23 Feb 2013

Tutorial: Facing instead of binding

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, Tutorials | 9

I finished quilting my quilt yesterday morning. Just simple lines following the curves of the piecing. It’s been quite a while since I’ve done any quilting, so I was pretty rusty. The quilting lines aren’t as smooth and the corners … Continued

22 Feb 2013

Product Review: Mountain Mist White Gold

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, Product reviews, Work in progress | 3

Do you ever find things in your studio that you don’t remember purchasing? This week I went to my stash of batting and found a crib size roll of Mountain Mist White Gold batting. Since I am in “use it … Continued

20 Feb 2013

Thread color decisions

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, Color, Free-motion quilting, Work in progress | 0

Decisions, decisions. Today I need to decide if I will quilt this with just one color thread, or if I will use multiple colors. For most of the quilts I make, thread color is an easy choice. Since I am … Continued

19 Feb 2013

Making progress

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, Work in progress | 4

I worked fairly diligently today — at least several hours — and I’m making progress. I still want to work on the two lower corners. I haven’t done a very good job working those out yet, but maybe I’ll have … Continued

19 Feb 2013

It’s just a piece of fabric

by Maria | posted in: #1 Cabin Window, Work in progress | 0

I decided I needed to put aside procrastination and try working on something. I took out the blue quilt top I started in a Nancy Crow workshop last May. This is the same quilt top I took out on February … Continued