Magpie Girl 5 (7.5†x 12.5â€) I’ve finished 4 more magpie girl quilts – these 4 are smaller than the first set I made. I like the smaller size but it has been a challenge to select baubles – the scale of some items I wanted to attach wasn’t quite right. This first magpie girl […]
WIP – Art Quilts
Art Quilts in Progress Ever the overachiever, I have 15 art quilts in progress. 11 will be magpie girl quilts. As I am striving to improve my doodle stitching, thought I would share what the backs of some of these quilts look like. Some are simple; some are messy. Some have me considering using the […]
Circles Baby Quilt
Circles Baby Quilt (42†x 42â€) This quilt finally has a home with a new baby girl and her proud parents. Cream fabric with fabric from the Basic Grey Urban Couture. The circle were fused and then free motioned stitched. I washed and dried it a few times so the circles frayed which makes it […]
MQG Habitat Challenge
portable baby changing/play mat (25†x 28â€) After reading about the Modern Quilt Guild Habitat Challenge, Krista gave us fat eighths and challenged the members of Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild to make anything with it. I struggled with the challenge – the prints are not my thing. After seeing the thick and thin quilt pattern […]
Perfect Day
Harding Icefield and glacier We celebrated our wedding anniversary with an overnight in Seward, AK and 9 hour wildlife/fjord/glacier tour. The weather was ideal, especially after almost 2 weeks of rain. We traveled 120 miles during the tour through the Kenai Fjords National Park. Orca Whales Orca Whales We saw orca whiles, humpback whales and […]
Feeling Better
Fabric book cover (8†x 8â€) Not feeling well lasted a week. I’m not very good at being sick and resting to get better. I’m okay with staying home to not spread germs, but I work from home so I usually keep working when I’m sick. Last week I kept telling myself: it was just […]
Community with Quilts
Cincinnati Community Quilt top I’m not feeling well; no new projects today. Instead how about a project from a few year ago. When I moved to Cincinnati in 2005, my friend Denise encouraged me to join the quilt guild there. I showed up to my first meeting feeling awkward and out of place, but a […]
Baby Quilt
Baby Quilt (44†x 44â€) I finished the baby quilt. It took a few tries before I found the right layout. I backed it with the DS Quilts Red and Pink Dots fabric which worked well with the other fabrics. I quilted it with my walking foot both in the ditch and on the diagonals. […]
WIP – Baby Quilt
WIP – baby quilt (expected 44†x 44â€) As I was gathering fabrics for my next set of magpie girls I saw several fat quarters with pink. My brother and sister-in-law recently learned they are expecting a girl; my first soon to be niece needs a quilt. She’ll be baby sister to my two nephews […]
Projects for Home
We need a chair for our living room and cannot decide on what to buy. If one of us lays on the couch, the other is on the floor. To make the floor more comfy and colorful, I made 3 floor pillows each 27†x 27â€. The Anna Maria Horner fabrics are perfect here and […]