This past weekend I was not able to spend a lot of time in my quilt room. On my About Me page, you can see that one of my other hobbies is Crossfit and on Saturday I competed at a local competition. On Sunday I was quite sore so I only spend about an hour …
I finished quilting my Patriotic Rail Fence quilt! All that is left for me to do is hand sew the binding and then I will have a nice lap quilt for the summer. As I mentioned previously, this is a really easy pattern. This quilt consists of three strips from a jelly roll sewed together …
It is finally starting to feel like spring in my neck of the woods so I spent a lot of time outside this weekend soaking up some much needed vitamin D. As a result, I spent only a little bit of time in my quilt room. After spending several months on my Christmas Quilt, I …
To clip or not to clip... that is the question for a finished quilt. I am working on the finishing touches of my Country Charmer Christmas quilt. I know everyone is anxiously awaiting to see the finished product... Putting the finishing touches on a quilt can be a tedious process. I admit, sometimes I get …
Well I have finished the quilting part of my Country Charmer Christmas quilt. Yay! Now it is time for the binding. The binding is what finishes the quilt and keeps everything held together. There are several ways to do binding. I have opted for the simple way. I chose a small holiday lights pattern for …
For my Country Charmer Christmas quilt, I am going with a free motion quilting design. Before choosing a design, I perused through my collection of Angela Walters free motion quilting books. I love Angela because she gives step by step instructions and troubleshooting for popular free motion designs. Her books are great for beginner free …
Let's talk basting. If you are new to quilting, basting is the process of making your quilt sandwich in preparation for sewing it together or quilting. The quilt sandwich consists of the quilt back (backing), the batting (middle of quilt) and the quilt top. When machine quilting, there are two types of basting methods: pin …
Well I finished the top to my Country Charmer quilt! I changed up the border a bit because I liked the way the light gray looked and I had a lot of extra background fabric. I just ordered the backing fabric from Fabric.com and it should arrive by the end of next week. While I …
The Marti Mitchell Perfect Patchwork Corner Trimmer has been a life saver for this quilt.
I am currently working on a Christmas quilt. Yes, it's March and I am already thinking of Christmas.
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