Mystery Recently Completed
I love mystery quilts. I have made many of Debbie Caffrey Mystery Quilts. I will be running Mystery Classes using Debbie Caffrey’s pattern at the Pine Tree Quilt Shop. But this is not one of them. If I showed you the quilt for the class, it wouldn’t be a mystery anymore. This quilt I call […]
Esty Shop Now Open
I finally did it. I opened an Etsy shop. What is an Etsy shop? It’s a website that specializes handmade crafts and vintage items. I will be selling quilts made by myself. I will also be selling off some of my fabric stash. I have listed two bed quilts and 6 pieces of fabric to […]
Justin’s Door Blanket/Quilt
My nephew Justin lives in Minnesota. Where it can be very cold. The door at his home is metal and not well insulated. He tried all the various products for sealing the door. But it’s still cold. He remembered when he was in college in Utah, another place it gets cold, he had hung a […]
Online Quilt Class
A few weeks back, I signed up for an on-line quilt class given by Carla Barrett. Her class is call Quilt Whispering. One of the hardest part of creating a quilt is how to quilt it. All quilters dread the instructions at the end of a pattern that says “quilt as desired.” As a longarm […]
Mystery Quilt
My friend Carol followed a mystery quilt in the Quilters Newsletter Magazine. She figured it would be fun. The first step was to make simple anvil type blocks. Her’s remind me of a piece of cellophane wrapped candy. Next was a modified bear paw block. Then they upped the anti with an applique block, eight […]
Pantographs Organized
As any longarm quilter knows, it can be difficult to organize your pantographs. What’s a pantograph? It is a long sheet of paper on which is printed a quilting design. These designs are placed on a quilting frame and the longarm quilter follows the pattern with a laser pointer. Thus duplicating the pattern on to […]
Testing Out New Designs
I have a customer who makes quilts for the Linus Project. She is prolific in her quilt making. It’s always a challenge to do something different on these quilts. She usually give me 4 to 6 quilts at a time. Some times I use a printed pantograph. But I usually try to use these quilts […]
Quilt in A Quilters Gathering Show
I have a quilt in “A Quilters Gathering” in Nashua this year. The quilt I entered is the one I made for the MVQ challenge last year. It is titled “One of Five.” The main five blocks are called Sisters Choice. I am one of five girls. I asked each of my sisters what […]
Trip to Alaska
No, I haven’t been to Alaska. I would like to go. Especially after finishing my customer’s quilt. While vacationing in Alaska, my customer stumbled upon a shop hop being run by the local quilt shops. As part of the shop hop, each shop had a kit for a block to a quilt celebrating the 50th […]
Challenge to Myself
On January 3rd, along with a few other members of the Hanna Dustin Quilt Guild, we presented a lecture on longarm quilting. As part of that lecture I stated that I have many quilt tops that I have yet to quilt. So I have decided to challenge myself to quilt one of these tops per […]