I have mostly been doing quilting not piecing. My daughter made this beautiful king sized top that I quilted for her.
It was the first really big – took up the whole width of my machine – quilt I’ve done on my machine.
She is satisfying to quilt for as she had it bound and on her bed within 48 hours of getting it back from me!
To push myself to get creating again I took a look through my UFOs and picked out two small tops made of leftover blocks and did some more practice using the computerized aspect of my longarm.
It’s actually quite inefficient in time because I stand there and babysit it, but the accuracy is pretty cool – I mean look at those perfect circles!
It's pretty nice to have a couple new little quilts from leftovers :)
I’ve created another single block pattern for the traditional block pattern collection in the community. It’s a simple Friendship Star.
Traditional Friendship Star block
It has directions for 3 sizes of blocks plus a video that explains how to make it and press it so you can see all the point intersections as you piece.
I have not yet written a quilt pattern using it, but I did get thinking about friendship and quilting and made this mug for the shop.
Since so many traditional block patterns (like Friendship Star) involve HSTs and I’ve become a major fan of trimming HSTs, I created a video for anyone who has ended up with HSTs too small to trim.
Life is stressful. Piece. Need to say goodbye? Unsubscribe here Unraveled is finally done — and it unraveled me a little in the process. Since my goal was to represent fabric unraveling, I guess that’s appropriate. I tried new things and they didn’t work or didn’t work as anticipated. 1) I used a new-to-me thread in my longarm. I spent so much time adjusting tension to make it work right! Once I started quilting with that thread I was locked into using it for the whole quilt so I just...
Life is stressful. Become a peaceful quilter. Need to say goodbye? Unsubscribe here Remember that bowl cozy project I mentioned last newsletter? After that 4 am solution revelation, I was finally able to pull my head out of the bowl cozy rabbit hole and wrap it up. 🎉 You can watch my video about the process here: The pattern, which includes access to the calculator and videos that show you every step of the pattern to make cozies that fit YOUR bowls, is available in my shop - Custom Bowl Cozy...
Life is stressful. Become a peaceful quilter. The last time I wrote I was just starting on quilting Unraveled. I was feeling a bit stretched with the quilting I was attempting but bravely forging ahead. Until I started having major issues with my longarm. I created a whole course on knowing what’s up with your domestic machine and troubleshooting, but this still threw me for a loop. In the end I needed to order a special tool and wait for it to come. Which meant no quilting. Plus it was a...
