Awesome quilting!

I was looking at a blog I like to read and found some familiar quilts - mine!!  Check out Abby's blog post here and see her beautiful work.

This weekend will be all about my winding ways blocks.  I have several in process.  And House of Cards Season 2 is available on Netflix.

I hope you are going to have a great quilty weekend too.

Still trying!

I'm going to get this monster done in 2014. I can hear my friend Heather's voice in my head, "finish the project!"

I'm a starter. It's good to have finishers around me for support. 

Quilting with friends

I have a couple of friends who are new to quilting.  Today we worked together so that each of them could learn to pin baste and then machine quilt their first quilts.  I was so excited to be part of their projects!  I'm so impressed by their eagerness to learn - and to complete a quilt.  I also benefitted from their encouragement.  I WILL FINISH my Winding Ways quilt this year, no excuses.

From Boring to Bento Boxes

I was trying to use some fabric in my stash and was risking a truly bland quit. Too many prints with similar scale and color. 

So I thought adding some color would help. But still, yawn. 

After several inspiration searches through blogland and Pinterest, I decided to try a Bento Box quilt. 

Yes! I think I'm on to something here. I'll never let quilt blahs get me down. 

Happy Sewing!

Indecision

I have had a scrappy tumbler quilt waiting to be bound for months.  I just couldn't make myself trim the ends.  My mom mentioned that she would love to see it trimmed and bound around those tumblers. But I'm sure I'll give the quilt to a friend or family member who wouldn't have any idea about how hard that was to do.  

So finally I did it.

I marked a straight line and I CUT IT.

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Then, I bound it and I'm happy to say that it's done.

A finished quilt is the very best kind of quilt. 

Happy sewing!

Pins, pins, pins!

I love these Winding Ways blocks, even though they slow me down!

The key is to use pins. Not too many, but the registration marks and the end and midpoints need pins. 

Now, to sew. Small stitches, slow pace. Lovely results. 

I remembered!

I laid out the 88 blocks that I found earlier in the week. I need to make two more so I can have a 9x10 layout. I set the blocks on point. Then I looked at the alternate squares that were with the little blocks. When I spied them, I only saw neutral fabrics. But there are also dark squares. So I flipped half of the squares so that I'll have alternating light and dark columns. I'm sure I can find something in my closet for setting triangles and borders.

The only thing I can't remember is why I stopped working on this project.