Happy Mail this week brought more Cradle Quilts for the drive. I am just blown away by the generosity of readers who not only make the quilts, but pay to ship them to me. One day there were five packages to pick up! How fun is this! And I know there are more on the …
Category: Quilting
End of Summer Drive and Happy Mail
We had a nice drive recently with some friends. We wanted to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway when the weather cleared and cooled off, so we emailed our buddies and got a group to go. We met at a parking lot, then drove up to the parkway together. The scenery is lush and green everywhere, …
Sunday Chat – Wildlife, Garden and Quilts
Another week of wildlife visits, this small flock of turkeys came by for a meal. I'm pretty sure these are four of the flock of seven that were here last week. They certainly came up running up from the lower meadow just like last time when I stepped out to the veranda and began tossing …
Custom Quilted Quilt of Valor Finish
When we left off the Quilt of Valor, I was about halfway finished. Continuing on, I finished the white in the flag, quilting wavy lines like a waving flag. Then I changed the thread color to red, and quilted the red stripes in the same way. Advancing the quilt down, I outlined the lower wide …
Custom Quilted Quilt of Valor
This quilt is for a special friend, a really interesting guy. When his wife told me she was making it, I actually begged her to let me quilt it. I said I would do a nice stars and loop pantograph on it, one I use for most Quilts of Valor that I quilt. When she …
Purse in a Day Project
I have a gauzy white prairie dress that I recently bought and usually I wear it with a black shrug and black enamel jewelry. I think the black makes it look a bit dressier and keeps it from looking like a wedding dress. Doing some shopping online, I came across a darling little shrug in …
Finishing Yugana Tsuru, the Art Quilt
The Japanese fabrics art quilt is done! At the end of the last post about it, I had the three elements quilted and the base finished. The next step was to center the black circle on the seam lines. I used a tape measure and a long ruler placed on the seam line to find …
Garden, Wildlife and in the Sewing Room
Standing at my kitchen sink earlier this week, I noticed movement in the front. Once again, the local black bear was making an attempt to get to the bird feeder. My Sweet Babboo has tie-wrapped it to the pole so the bear cannot shake it down and cannot reach it, but last time the bear …
Crafting for the Fair
August is the time to get out the glue gun and do some crafting for the fair. This division of the exhibits has been thin in participants since covid shut down the fair in 2020. In 2021, there were so few entries, practically every entry got a ribbon. In 2022, it was a bit better, …
Progress on the Japanese Art Quilt
This past week has seen significant progress on the art quilt with the Japanese fabrics. I showed the base last week, and I have since completed the binding. I did it in the same black as the border, so it now is framed in double black with the pieced border between. With the base binding …
From My Carolina Home 