Today I am participating in an event called Quilter's Meet and Greet - a blog hop of quilting bloggers, some new, some established. Welcome to From My Carolina Home! I am a longarm quilter, pattern designer and speaker for quilting enthusiasts, and I've been blogging for over 4 years. I do lots of free patterns …
Making Scents at the Arboretum and the Quilt Garden
Wearing perfume is enjoyable for me, but is fraught with problems nowadays because of other people's allergies or lung issues. I have to be very careful when I decide to wear it out. I don't put it on in crowded situations like meetings, but I do enjoy wearing a pretty scent out to dinner with …
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Quilting Orizuru – The Crane Wall Hanging
Quilting the Orizuru quilt was daunting in the beginning. The practice piece was helpful in getting me to loosen up and get into the rhythm of free motion. I then did a few practice squares with scraps. But when it came time to put the cranes under the needle, I would freeze again. So I …
Getting Ready for the Fair
The Mountain Regional State Fair turn-in day for the competitions is Monday, and I am entering 23 contests this year in a bunch of divisions. I actually started early enough in August this year pulling it all together, getting my online entries done, and completing projects. I have 5 quilt entries, 5 photography entries, several …
Apple Festival Tablescape
Coming up in just a few days, the annual Apple Festival will run four days over Labor Day weekend in downtown Hendersonville, starting on Friday. This is really a fun event, such a small town thing. I've posted about it in the past, showing the wide range of apple varieties and yummy things made with …
Starting to Quilt Orizuru Paper Cranes
Quilting the Orizuru wall hanging turned into more of a task than my normal quilting. For this one, I wanted to do a really good custom quilting job on it instead of the usual pantograph. I need more practice with freehand quilting anyway, and a small project is a good place to start. Since I …
Mountain Living – Panthers, Cars and Fiber Art
August has had lots of fun things to do, so much that I can't get to it all to talk about on the blog. Settle in for a long and picture heavy post! The highlight of the month so far was a trip down to Spartanburg for a day to see the Panther's at their …
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Orizuru – An Origami Crane Mini Quilt
Talking with my friends recently at lunch at my house, I was showing them my Sakura Tsuki Art Quilt saying I made it during my 'Japanese phase'. I did a whole month of Japanese Inspired posts last February, including quilting, gardening, tablescapes and recipes with a Japanese inspired theme. Carin started laughing and said "aren't …
Bird Nest Art Project
One of the categories in the Mountain Regional State Fair is Natural Materials. This one is always a challenge to use items found on our property, created by nature, in a project. This summer, a Carolina Wren built a nest in a little bucket on the veranda and then abandoned it when DH was painting …
Colors of August Tablescape
Now that I have placemats and a table topper, it was time to take a look at the tablescaping stuff and see what I could pull together in a different way. I wanted to shop my own closet this time. Amazingly, I didn't buy one single thing, all of this came from my stash. I …
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