Jul 31 2009
Another recently started cut-and-not-yet-started-to be-sewn-project is a rose basket wall hanging. I made myself a little crazy on this one by purchasing four batiks that I really liked instead of only the three that I needed. I liked all four of them equally well, and I liked all four of them together so it made [...]
Jul 29 2009
Rachel at p.s. i quilt is having a giveaway for a $50 gift certificate from the Fat Quarter Shop. I normally don’t enter a lot of giveaways–only if it’s something I’d really like to win–like the OttLite I recently won. The $50 gift certificate is something I’d really like to win. So why am I [...]
Jul 29 2009
I’m behind in posting pictures of the finished blocks for my Inklingo Sampler. [What's new?] This is Friendship Star. Instructions for this block were posted on 17 July 2009 on the Inklingo Sampler blog. I love doing HST with Inklingo. I printed on the back of the light fabric, put it on top of [...]
Jul 28 2009
Michele at With Heart & Hands was given the opportunity to give away a copy of Freddy Moran & Gwen Marston’s new book on her blog. Michele says the book has 70 new & innovative designs. Seventy? Really? Wow. The subtitle is: Freewheeling Twists on Traditional Quilt Designs. It looks and sounds like fun. I [...]
Jul 28 2009
Block Two of the Inklingo Sampler was posted on 10 July 2009. It’s a simple 9 patch block. Here is mine in batiks. I don’t have all the Inklingo collections so I’m not sure I’ll be able to do all the blocks Tilde will be posting. I’ve combed through the block library in EQ6 and [...]
Jul 27 2009
Don’t you just love batiks? Well, I do. If I had the money for a large fabric stash, it’d be mostly batiks I think. All these yummy fabrics are for one of my newly started projects–one of the ones that I’ve cut fabric bits for but haven’t started sewing yet. These are for the pattern [...]
Jul 24 2009
A few posts back, after I listed all my projects and promptly fainted, I had a heart-t0-heart with myself about my long list. I decided I needed to whittle it down. [Ha! Yeah, so you could add more projects to it without feeling so guilty. Oh hush, Guilty Conscience. No one asked you!] One of [...]
