All things quilting
The workshop I had set up for today did not run. But the Mystery Workshop on August 5th is running. There is still room in the class if you want to join in. The workshop is a Debbie’s Creative Moments mystery quilt workshop. This means you don’t know what the finished quilt will look like. …
I have always loved doing Mystery Quilts. A Mystery Quilt is one in which you are given fabric requirements and cutting instructions, but do not know what the final quilt will look like. A few of the local quilt shops have presented Mystery Quilts as a part of a shop hop. Now I will be…
This is a customers quilt I quilted recently. I used the Asian fabric as inspiration for the quilting design. Ponding with flowers. My customer Loved it. C
This weekend was the Merrimack Valley Quilters Guild Annual Quilt Show. (Boy, that’s a mouth full.) I was pleasantly surprised. The Mystery Blue quilt I entered to be judged won two ribbons. One for 2nd Place for Machine Quilting, the other for 3rd Place in the Large Quilt Category. My good friend Carol Sullivan also…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…