Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Raffle Quilt

Published Date: November 11th, 2009
Category: Personal, Sewing, quilts

My goodness, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. One of the reasons is we decided to rip the icky, ucky Berber carpet out of our house and lay laminate flooring instead.

Here’s another project–my quilt guild’s raffle quilt for this fall. Obviously, everybody worked on it, but it is [...]

Quilt Travel Schedule

Published Date: September 6th, 2009
Category: Personal, quilts

I’m excited–my quilt will be in WV on September 25-27…in the next town over from my parents!  So I’ll actually be able to go see it on exhibit.
Here’s a link to the traveling schedule (Trunk Show C, Paisley)
Now back to Fall cleaning.

Quilt Going Walkabout!

Published Date: August 15th, 2009
Category: Fabric, Personal, quilts

Well, I didn’t win the Hoffman Challenge (I really didn’t expect to), but it looks like “Paisleys, Pearls, and Peach Blossoms will be traveling in Trunk Show C! Woohoo! Granted, that means I won’t get my quilt back until next October, but I’m not upset in the slightest! As soon as they [...]

Well, I got it done. At 2 am Tuesday morning. And then nine hours later stood in a UPS store paying entirely too much to rush the quilt to Colorado before the Friday deadline.

This year’s challenge fabric was a beautiful cream, green, and brown paisley design with pearlescent highlights. I had the [...]

Alternative use for a Quilting Frame

Published Date: June 20th, 2009
Category: Personal

Quilting frames are good for other purposes too…