This past week, I loaded up a charity quilt and began the quilting on it. My friend said to use whatever I wanted for thread color and pantograph pattern. Auditioning threads, I decided on a light golden taupe with a pantograph that has curves. I showed this quilt on Sunday, and didn't know the name …
Category: Quilting
In the Garden, the Kitchen, and the Sewing Room
With a few days of warming weather and lots of rain, things are starting to happen in the garden. Oliver now has a buddy, or maybe a mate, who knows? They are coming by together to get their tidbits, Oliver is on the retaining wall on the left, while his buddy (paramour?) is on the …
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Machine Embroidery Project
I'm still working on using my embroidery machine for projects. I stopped using it for some years as I just lost interest. I didn't have that many designs on the cards, and the machine is too old to use the new ones available online. It doesn't have a USB connection, and I didn't invest in …
Sewing a Fabric Bowl
There are new books published every month from C&T Publishing (one of my affiliates), and one recently got my attention as something different. The illustrations on the cover attracted me, and I thought this would be a great way to use some of my collection of Japanese prints. So, during my last virtual retreat last …
Scrap Dancing Individual Class Sign Up Open
How many scraps of material have you saved? Do you have uneven pieces from cutting, partial yard leftovers, old clothes you can’t stand to give away because of the fabric or a pretty embroidery, bits and pieces of this and that? Do you buy 4 yards of fabric when the pattern calls for 3?“I’m going …
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Finishing the Low Volume Quilt
When we left off the Low Volume Quilt, I had the top made and was ready to quilt it. I loaded it on the longarm and auditioned thread colors. It might have been nice quilted in pink, but I didn't have pink cotton thread. I think kid quilts should be quilted with cotton rather than …
Sunday Chat
Seems this has been another week of not getting a lot accomplished, but still busy all week. Last weekend and into Monday was the Backyard Bird Count. I did have some fun taking some photos and reporting my counts every day for the four day time frame. My Sweet Babboo kept the feeder full so …
Low Volume Quick Quilt
These pretty pastels were part of a box of fabrics that a friend of mine was destashing. I thought they were lovely, soft and perfect for a little quilt for charity. I originally planned to write this up for a guest blogger post for another blogging event, but I changed my mind and decided to …
Sunday Conversation
It has been cold most of the week, rainy for the past couple of days, with just one warm day to go for a walk outside last Tuesday. We took more boxes of books to the sale site, then did a walk around the outside loop at Flat Rock Park. It was hard to find …
Piddling Around
This past week has been a lot of piddling around, and not finishing much. I've done a few embroidery motifs using the new cards purchased for my 20+ year old Brother Pacesetter machine. I showed this one last week, as it was stitching, here it is completed. I'll add two more to this one for …
From My Carolina Home 