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Archive for March, 2009

National Quilting Day

I’ve been busy, so I haven’t been keeping up with my blog posts. Last week, I completed 5 customer quilts and one of my own. My son, Collin, came home on spring break on Wednesday night. With working so much and catching up with my boys and their friends, it’s been a crazy week!  I [...]

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Opinions Please

I’m trying to decide how I want to finish the edges of my silk piece. I have it pinned so that you can see how it would look with a traditional quilt binding and how it would look with a facing instead, which leaves the edges finished and turned to the back.  Jump in and [...]

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Our guild recently hosted Peggy Martin, a fabulous quilter and teacher.  She taught us how to make the New York beauty blocks using the  strip paper piecing method. I’ve wanted to make a New York beauty quilt for a long time, but I wasn’t thrilled about paper piecing. I so enjoyed this class! It was [...]

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Emily came for tea on Friday, and I let her take the quilt home. She was so danged cute when I gave it to her! It truly makes all the work worth every minute of it! 
Most of the  fabric was purchased at Strawbery Patches. The backing fabric is a gorgeous robin’s egg blue that I [...]

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