Category Archives: quilts Hey look at that! Exactly one day shy of a year since my last post and here I am again! It’s been so long I couldn’t even remember the url to log in to write this post. Anyway, the last year has been devoid of blog posts but not of crafting. Let’s start with this […]  In the six weeks between Halloween and our departure for Germany for Christmas with family, I made three quilts. Three. It was insanity. Insanity that was supposed to have been completed well before November, of course…but having to commit to things like a pattern and fabric in a quilt that was JUST RIGHT for each […]  When my mom came to visit in 2012 we started a strip quilt together with the girl fabrics from Sarah Jane’s Children at Play line (I’ve earned a reputation as making my guests work) and I had everything but the binding finished this past spring. When my mom came to visit in October I realized […]  ***Cool announcement: the subscribe by email feature in the sidebar to the right is now working!*** Look at this poor little neglected blog! It was a busy summer that included a week-long evacuation from a wildfire that we thought for a few days had destroyed our home (I even had a blog post planned out […]  I kept the purple. It actually was a good moment for me because I realized it really gets to the heart of my issues with the MQG right now (ridiculous judging forms from Quiltcon, the new limited definition of what constitutes Modern Quilting, among other issues). As Kelly so perfectly put it–I can learn to […]  I have officially joined the ranks of the crazy people. I am actually giving serious thought to ripping off a quilt’s binding, making new continuous bias binding, and sewing it on again. I think this might be unnecessary. Help me decide. Here’s the deal–with this quilt I thought the purple binding was a no-brainer. I […] |
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