So, despite getting waylaid by paint cans last week, I’ve gotten my aunt’s quilt to the quilting stage. It’s all nicely sandwiched and pinned.
And here I am stuck.
I tried to hoop it to hand-quilt this lovely wineglass design (this despite my lack of ability to sew even stitches), but I couldn’t get the hoop [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Well, I finished all the flora on the wall today. Yahoo!
Oh, and we made the cute bear clock on the wall too.
Here’s the mostly finished product. I still have to paint on the fauna (where the photos are taped on the wall) and make the curtains. But I can at least put [...]
I’m supposed to be working on a quilt for my aunt, whose birthday is at the end of this month. It’s nice and simple (Woven Ribbons block). I’ve got the top almost all pieced, and my mother is going to do the hand-quilting (for the main reason that I can’t hand-sew a straight, even line [...]
Amazing how much color can change a design. This block is not complicated in the least. Squares, squares, and more squares. But by putting the block on point and playing around with the colors, you can get designs that don’t look like they share the same block base.
Well, June’s finally flown, and boy was it busy. Probably the biggest thing was my yearly dance recital on the 23rd (I take Irish and ballet). And this year my 2 1/2 year-old daughter also performed for the first time. Which means both sets of grandparents were in town for the big [...]