The Carolina Mingle Class has begun ⟶
You know I’ve been working on this quilt longer than I normally work on a quilt. I don’t consider myself a fast worker, but I’m definitely steady. I work at quilts on the daily. It’s prolific for me. A daily ritual that lasts most of the day. I took hand quilting with me on…
Out of print gnome fabric I overpaid for by Heather Ross, but don’t regret it because it makes me smile. I have several quilts going on at once. Some that I haven’t worked on in many, many months. Still, I keep adding to my list of quilts in the making. There are just too…
I have previously mentioned wanting to make and use Lori Holt’s mini design boards before. I feel like whenever you are making quilt blocks that require that certain fabrics to go in certain positions, I have trouble with my usual chain piecing technique. Sorta. Most quilts that I make, anything can go anywhere, but there…
This is the stack of fabrics that came in this week. I can’t tell you how tickled I get when I get a bundle of low volume fabrics. And I know that you know that I make a LOT of low volume quilts. So I am constantly using up my stash of low volumes and…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what my own style is. There are so many colors I like and so many different looks too. I don’t consider myself traditional, but I’m not very modern either. Somewhere in the middle, maybe? I do like modern quilts and I do like traditional quilts. I read somewhere…
I have mentioned this particular quilt in a dozen different posts. The thing is, it’s my favorite. ABOVE all other quilts. I don’t know why exactly. I can look at it and see how complicated it was to make. The back of the quilt top had hundreds of tiny hand stitches. This quilt took it’s…