I love getting magazines with these words on the shipping label sheet. Pick up the Summer 2012 issue of Art Quilting Studio, my quilt is on page 130. I’m thrilled that they showed the back of the quilt too.
Month: May 2012
The Husband’s Challenge
A local fabric store has a fat quarter sale on Jan 1st. Each fat quarter is $1 but you have to buy a minimum of 50. I mentioned the sale to my husband and commented that I wasn’t sure I would find 50 fat quarters I wanted. He suggested we go anyway and he could […]
Quilt Tops
Here are 5 of the newest quilt tops finished: 54†x 54†constructed of 2 Half Moon Modern charm packs and 1.5 white charm squares. 54†x 54†constructed of 2 Vintage Modern charm packs, 1 Wonderland charm pack I’ve had for years and a handful of extra white squares 57†x 47.5†constructed of […]
Mad Stitching and Relaxation
I have been sewing like a mad woman. I have completed 6 more quilt tops (8 total this month), 7 quilt backs and 8 binding strips. I’ll be busy quilting all of these for the next few month. Sewing quilt tops has been an ideal activity to relieve stress and it’s brought me several tops […]
May Giveaway Day!
EDIT: The winner of the Creative Girl Art Quilt Kit is Jessica with comment 136! I love Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Days. It’s a great opportunity to discover new blogs and maybe win free stuff. It’s also motivating me to spend more time blogging. My day job has been way too stressful lately and blogging […]
Toss the Bouquet
Toss the bouquet (8†x 10â€) I also finished this before my last quilt guild meeting. The background I had previously constructed so I pulled out scraps of white and text fabrics and challenged myself to make a girl without drawing her first. I had been watching a show where the characters were going to […]
Niece in Dress
Look what my sister posted to Facebook – Brianna in the dress I made her. She is so cute. I can’t wait say hi to her in person this November.
Quilts Tops and Dresses
Dots (54†x 54â€) Quilt guild meetings are motivators for me to finish at least one project. I finished two quilt tops and a few dresses for the little girls in my life before the last meeting. Whirly Squares (54†x 54â€) I struggled to finish the quilt tops. I had parts of them done […]
Stress and Illness
Fabric Postcard (4†x 6â€) completed a few year ago Increased stress and illness have snuck into our lives. I take smaller than usual chunks of time to be creative; slowly stitching together quilt tops as I push past the doubts of my fabric selections, sewing dresses for little girls and completing super secret projects […]