Category Archives: quilts Inspired by Jessica‘s fantastic sewing kit for her diamonds quilts, I put together a similar kit for my diamonds quilt as well as the hand quilting I’m doing (and it’s all ready to go for bindings, too). So far it’s so handy I can’t believe I ever lived without it. Here’s a peek: All this […]  I spent a lot of time cutting this week, and created this pretty little rainbow : I thought that linen might be pretty for the stars, but decided on white. (Although I’m toying with the idea of various shades of white and cream.)  I finished sewing the binding on this monstrosity over a week ago, but it took me forever to get pictures because (1) it’s really hard to get decent pictures of a quilt this big and (2) I’m disappointed in the quilting. I couldn’t figure out why some sections of the quilt seem to pull in […]  This quilt is going on 15 years of UFO-ness. It’s the first quilt I ever worked on, though I’ll probably have made 50 by the time I get this one finished. It’s a sample quilt that I started at the tender age of 13. I was hand quilting it at the stroke of midnight 2000. […]  Remember this dream on quilt top? When I finished it at the end of October, autumn was coming on strong and I decided to set it aside until working with the spring colors felt right again. The design is based off a quilt that I saw on flickr (which of course I can’t find the […]  Remember the quilt back that went from pretty stack of fabric to hideous “I-can’t-possibly-use-this?” Well, it wasn’t really the fabric’s fault. The strips looked fine, they just didn’t look okay with the print I was using. I realized that the section I had pieced didn’t need to be a total loss, though–that it just needed […] |
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