“A stone path led beneath an arbor of ancient roses with arthritic joints. The temperature cooled as they crossed the garden’s threshold. The overall impression was one of darkness and gloom. And quiet, an odd, still quiet. Even the noise of the irrepressible sea seemed dulled in here. It was as if the grounds within …
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Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 2 – sewing binding to the quilt
Sewing the binding to the quilt is rather easy, just follow along the edge. The corners are tricky, but not too hard once you know the secret. Remember that quilting is based on accuracy and precision, and your binding should be that way too. See Part One on How to Make Bias Binding if you …
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Garden flowers and a walk in the park
Spring finally seems to have arrived, and Easter Sunday was a glorious day, warm and sunny. My garden is coming a bit more alive, and some of the flowers are still going strong. Others are beginning to stir. I am especially impressed with these tulips, still looking good, and the dark purple ones have come …
QOV Finishes
It was a rainy weekend, so I used the time to finish up the quilting on two quilts of valor. I used pantographs on both quilts. The star quilt got a simple swirl. It is a great panto because it can go two passes without having to advance the quilt. This makes the quilting go …
Happy Easter!
Hope you all have a splendid day! Enjoy my little Easter Rabbit train, it spells out Happy Easter. Aren't they cute?
Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 1 – Making bias binding
Binding a quilt is easy, and enjoyable. I like to have some hand work to do in the evenings, and whipping a binding down is one of my favorite things to do. I know, I am nuts. For those who are newer quilters, I am going to do a multi-part tutorial on bindings. It has …
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Spring Flowers 2014
It is almost Easter, and maybe the warmer days are finally here. We had a freeze Tuesday night, and Wednesday night, and the higher mountains north of us got snow. Luckily, the apple crop is probably OK, only losing about 10% of the blooms. This county is a huge apple producer. On the plus …
QOV Works in Progress
Wednesday was spent working on Quilts of Valor. I had one group of stars that I put together at a work party with dark blue sashing, and I decided to add a red border. The quilt was square, so I made the end borders just a smidgen bigger than the sides so it would work …
Block of the Month – February catch up
February Catch up Block of the Month is called Waterwheel Variation, and you can find the pattern on Quilters Cache – click here for the pattern - http://www.quilterscache.com/W/WaterwheelVariationBlock.html My kit only contained this blue and light gray, but the block image on our handout looked like only two colors so I went on with it. …
Spring Floral Wall Hanging Wool Work
One of the challenges this year for our local quilting group is a President's UFO challenge. We are to list four projects that are in progress or not yet started, that we agree to finish before February 2015. One of mine was to make a Spring Floral Wall Hanging. I knew we were going to …
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