Monthly Archives: October 2011
Making a Custom Diaper Bag
A while back, perhaps in May or June, a woman at work spotted one of my handbags, and asked if I could make a diaper bag for her daughter, in time for the baby shower. I agreed, then promptly forgot about it. Until she reminded me about the baby shower on the 2nd of November. Yikes!
Long Arm Quilting: Clara #27 T-Shirt Quilt
Ordinarily, I do not like t-shirt quilts. I would not naturally choose to make them or quilt them, but for an opportunity to say that I did something once, I agreed to quilt this one as part of my “free quilting” experiment.
Long Arm Quilting: Pat #19
My friend WenR came over the other day and gave me a challenge: quilt 3 quilts in 4 days. Luckily, the days don’t have to be consecutive, but it gave me enough of a challenge & motivation to load up this quilt and get cracking!
Another Thread Obsession: Designing for Aurifil
If you’ve been reading this blog over the past year, you know that I’ve been experimenting with different threads for Mr. Darcy (my long arm) and came to settle on Superior Thread for 99% of my long arm work. What you haven’t seen as much (because Darcy is a huge part of my life right now) is my thread obsession for my domestic machine: Aurifil.
Henry Wedding Quilt: Finishing Up
In this final post about the Henry wedding quilt, I will cover off the final quilting motifs, and give a little tip I discovered when using Golden Threads Paper.
Henry Wedding Quilt: A Fishing Expedition
Anytime I work on a white quilt, I get worried that it will somehow be an awful, dirty mess by the time I finish it. I also get cravings for hot wings, chocolate frosting, and grape juice.
Henry Wedding Quilt: Quilting Begins with the First Stitch…
Here’s the Henry Wedding Quilt getting loaded on the frame: The quilt is about 84″ square – it’s supposed to finish at around 80″, but whenever I do a wholecloth quilt, I size it larger than needed because I know the quilting will cause it to lose a couple of inches. The quilting pattern is a pantograph called Chantilly Lace – it’s a beautiful open design, and I think it’s perfect for these wedding quilts. I suppose if I’m going to have a signature quilt, I should have a signature quilting design! Well, the only catch there is that this isn’t my pantograph design. Maybe one day.
Henry Wedding Quilt: Beginning
During the summer, I was commissioned to make a wedding quilt by the groom for his bride-to-be. You would think that from July to October would be plenty of time to make the quilt, but somehow I managed to procrastinate long enough to give myself about a month to finish it.
I Launched a Magazine!
If you’re wondering why it has been so quiet around here lately, it’s because I’ve been focusing my time and energy on a couple of really huge projects, the largest of which was launching a new digital magazine!
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