Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
While this post is quilt related, I am climbing up on to my soapbox, so you may want to come back tomorrow if you just want to talk about quilts and what I am making and doing. I went to see the Forbidden Words quilt the other week at the Drawing Room. The Forbidden Words … Continue reading “It Starts and Ends with Women”
As mentioned, I started sewing some Cotton Candy pouches at Sew Day. I had cut them out as a reminder after I sewed the Slimline version of the Cotton Candy pouch wrong. I was a little angry at myself, because I want to work on new pouches – patterns I haven’t tried before. Even though … Continue reading “Cotton Candy – More Starts”
I cannot find that I posted the final photos of this quilt, The Tarts Come to Tea. I went looking for information about the finished piece when I entered the San Mateo County Fair and couldn’t find the final post, so here we are. Yes, the Tarts is finished, including the sleeve. It finishes at … Continue reading “Finished: Tarts Come to Tea”
I know the photo I posted the other day didn’t show all of the tiny quilting lines. In this series of photos you can better see my obsession. The first photo, left, shows the back of the upper left hand corner. There are some parts that are not as heavily quilted as others. I was … Continue reading “Tarts Quilting Details”
After an amazingly long time with many stops and starts, I have finished quilting the last quilt I ever intend to quilt.* The first post I have on this quilt is from 2007. I wasn’t as diligent then about documenting my process, so the post is surprisingly spare on details. However there is an even … Continue reading “Tarts Quilting Finished”
OMG. Quilting is endless. Over the last weekend I thought I was making progress. Today I am convinced I will never finish quilting this quilt. Sigh. I finally tackled the large teapots. I am still following the edges and hoping I don’t ruin the quilt. I feel the space it too big to leave it … Continue reading “More Tarts Quilting”
After finishing The Lobster project, I had to decide what to work on next. The Tarts have been on the side burner (not the back burner!) for a few weeks, so I spent a whole afternoon machine quilting parts of it. I finished a checkerboard and I quilted one whole large corner block. I felt … Continue reading “More Tarts Progress”
As you can see from other posts I am not continuously quilting on the Tarts, but it is a project I try to work on every day. I was pretty excited about how the frame went after my first post, so I worked quite a bit on it. The bloom, however, is off the rose, … Continue reading “Continuous Tarts Quilting”
I am becoming slightly obsessed with this project. I wonder if I need to worry about how often I am using the word obsession or its derivatives lately? The first record I have of the Tarts is from 2003. That is a few years before I started this blog, so the details are lost in … Continue reading “Tarts Then and Now”
I am done with the novelty of quilting. The bloom is off the rose. Still I am quilting. It took me all day to quilt one corner background of the Tarts. The quilting looks good, but it was tedious and took a long time. No, I am not doing free motion quilting; I am doing … Continue reading “More Tarts Quilting”
Yes, after YEARS of having this project on my to do list, I have pulled it out of the project box and started to finish the quilting. First, I am obsessed at the moment with crossing things off my to do list. Frankly, I am sick of looking at the same items month after month. … Continue reading “The Tarts Return…Yet Again”
Last week I decided to finish the last project. The last Journey 2 Nebula project (except for the bonus project, which I am not doing) is Gazebo. I sort of did the whole project in order to do this one for myself. By the time I finished Candy Dish, I was kind of sick of … Continue reading “Gazebo Starts”
Along time ago, Friend Julie and I started cutting Windmill shapes for each other. It’s possible that the last time I posted about this project was in 2012. Last weekend, I decided that it was time to sew them together. This project is coming off the Hunting and Gathering list. The blades sew together very … Continue reading “Windmill Starts”
I finally had enough cut pieces to write a post on the Fabric of the Year 2018 piece. This year I chose a 2.5″ square so I could have a realistic chance of doing the Ellsworth Kelly style layout. The size of the pieces from Fabric of the Year 2017 makes this layout realistically impossible. … Continue reading “FOTY 2018 Starts”
I know it is confusing to have two of these going at once. I had to clear off my ironing board in order to put a new cover on it. Mine had a big hole, which wasn’t really bothering me. However, my ironing board is a unique brand and I came across a cover in … Continue reading “FOTY 2017 Starts”