I will be out of commission for a few days as I am having a surgery tomorrow. I look forward to catching up next week and to reading your blogs whole in the hospital. More importantly, I hope you all had an awesome Easter holiday. I enjoyed a beautiful day with my family, with some fun…
After a busy weekend sewing, I am so excited to share my quilt Spectrum. I originally had this idea as a QuiltCon 2016 submission but didn’t get my act together. So I decided to make it early to have it ready to submit for QuiltCon 2017. As it turns out, I will remake it…
It is National Quilting Day – a day that should be a holiday in my book! What else am I to do but work on a quilt. Here is my hand drawn pattern. This is more math than I ever expected to do for a single quilt. And here are my fabrics – all from…
After visiting several beautiful buildings filled with quilts and admiring the architecture, I finally set out to find the Patchwork de Sitges vendor market. I looked and I looked but couldn’t find it, and several people carrying quilts bags didn’t speak English. Eventually I got lucky though… Imagine three huge tents on the promenade overlooking…
My brother uses the phrase, “sometimes the bear gets you, sometimes you get the bear.” Today I got the bear. I am in Barcelona for a pitch this weekend and had some free time this afternoon after a meeting. Like any good quilter, I had googled local shops and went for a visit. When I…
Just finished the binding, with the help of my mother-in-law, on this happy little owl quilt. It is made from a charm pack and yardage of AdornIt fabrics that I picked up at QuiltCon. I really love it for a baby. The fabric in this line is so charming and the palette is warm…
As part of my mission to finish projects and have less clutter in my sewing space, I finally finished my weird little pin quilt. I made this with 2.5″ squares of Kona cotton, using all the colors that were available when I stitched the top about two years ago. The quilt measures 22″ x 38″…
