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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Sketching #127
Happy Halloween!!! I specifically did research so I would know how to draw a scary ghost only to be told my ghost wasn’t scary! I think he is scary and that is all that counts. You can draw a scary … Continue reading
Block-a-Long #28: Table
I must be in a furniture or house mode right now. Whenever I look at something lately I think of furniture. I would like to buy new furniture, but my checkbook says NO WAY! Again the directions for cutting are … Continue reading
26 Projects List
Here is the problem, which I think I have finally discovered since writing part 1 of this post. I move too fast in the quilting/sewing world to have lingering UFOs. I wrote last time about needing to finish or abandon … Continue reading
Tutorial: Nine Patch
Today we are making a Nine Patch. This is usually the first block I teach when I teach beginning quiltmakers in a Sampler Class context. You will need: Supply list: rotary cutter rotary cutting ruler large enough to cut 4.5″ … Continue reading
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Tagged Lessons/Teaching, Quilt Class, Sampler Quilt Class
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Sketching #126
Yes, I am still responding. I think I might be back in the groove. I am not promising a drawing from the old series every time, but I couldn’t get this image out of my head. The History Chicks must … Continue reading
Creative Prompt #128: Candy
Kids in a candy store San Francisco’s Daily Candy Pile of fabric candy: http://instagr.am/p/R9alC/ bulk candy Definition: Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added. … Continue reading
Various & Sundry #20
Media Swatch and Stitch is a blog and the posts recently have been very colorful. Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, formerly of FunQuilts and now of Modern Quilt Studio, have a new magazine. It is called Modern Quilts Illustrated and … Continue reading
Fall Journal Cover
I am on the last section of my current journal and know I will be needing a new journal soon. I have gotten used to using journal covers and thought it was time to make a new one. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Finished, Journals, Off Topic: Crafts
Tagged Completed Project!, Journals, Off Topic: Crafts, Quick Projects
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Finished: Pavers
And then there were 25. Except for changing the name of the quilter on the label, this quilt is done. Hooray. That means one more project off of my to do list.
A Few Things
I didn’t buy anything when I went on Wednesday night and Thursday, but Sunday I went back to PIQF and bought a few things. I didn’t take a picture of the inks. Didn’t have the wherewithall to do a lifestyle … Continue reading
Block-a-Long #27: Headboard
I thought that with the last block I should quit, since you all could make a 5×5 quilt and I wouldn’t feel like I was leaving you hanging, but that is an awfully small quilt, so I decided to continue. … Continue reading
ColorBlock Quilt Design
I keep walking by the RK Kona Challenge as it languishes over my bannister. As I did this, an idea formed in my head and that idea is in the photo. My idea was to cut 1.5″ squares from scraps … Continue reading
Last Jane Market Totes
Yes, I should have been working on the Stars for San Bruno #3 quilt, but I didn’t. these bags were cut out and I just wanted to get them out of my hair. I believe that these are the last … Continue reading
Creative Prompt #127: Ghost
Ghost Whisperer back up and file recovery software Ghost (movie with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore) Definition: In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible … Continue reading
Hexagon Progress
As you may have inferred, I got two quilts back from the stand-in longarm quilter last week, so I had two quilts to trim and bind. I don’t enjoy these steps in the process, probably because I don’t have a … Continue reading
