Archive for the 'Quilting' Category

Sliced Nine-Patch

Saturday I finished the top for my Thanksgiving quilt. For those of you keeping track, I received the fabric for Christmas 2010, got the pattern and cut the fabric for my Independence Day birthday 2011, and got the top done for Valentine’s Day 2012. Yeah, I’m a slow worker.  I’d been working away at it [...]

A Good Start

Finally started sewing my Thanksgiving quilt today.  Yeah, it was only two 9-patch blocks, and no, it won’t be done for this year,  but I got started.  I cut out the blocks a long time ago so it made me happy to finally start sewing!

Adventures in charity quilting

I decided to do some quilt blocks for an online charity collecting them to make quilts for the homeless.  Any type block allowed as long as it was a particular size but there were some sample patterns provided that would give the required size block. I wanted to use one of these patterns because I [...]

Adventures in quilting

For Christmas, Scott gave me a stack of fat quarters in fall fabrics for a Thanksgiving quilt I want to make.  I have a landing that’s prominent in my living room and I like to hang a quilt on it to soften it and dress it up a bit.  So far I have a patriotic [...]

My Halloween Quilt

Scott and Mark gave me fabric on my Independence Day birthday to make a Halloween quilt to drape over our railing.  I worked hard and finished it before Halloween.  Only a few hours, but still…