Category Archives: WIPs My diamond quilt is progressing, even if I failed miserably to finish even ONE piece of clothing in the alloted 7 hours for kid’s clothing week and feel like a sewing loser this week. My sister-in-law and brother-in-law came to visit this weekend (hi Erik!), and I kept my diamonds on hand for sewing while […]  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.)  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. […]  Thanks for commenting on my last post about my gray vs cream dilemna. I think all of the comments are well illustrating my thoughts on both sides!! I felt like I could only decide if I could see a few blocks, so I thought I’d make two test gray blocks and two test cream. Except […]  My tumbler quilt top is done. I love it and can’t wait to get it quilted and bound! |
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