We have a winner!

Arlijohn has won these Karen DuMont/Karie Patch Designs patterns by random drawing.

I will be contacting her privately for her snail mail address.
Thanks to all who participated in my 1st blogoversary celebration!

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This blog is one year old today!

And to celebrate, I’m having my first-ever giveaway. For the next two weeks, if you leave a comment on this page and also link to it in your blog, you’ll be entered for a random drawing to win 3 patterns by Karie Patch Designs. I’ve come to know Karen DuMont through our Electric Quilt classes [...]

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Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Amy over at ParkCityGirl came up with this wonderful idea to showcase bloggers’ quilts.
So here’s one of mine.
First the back story. Before there were blogs, there were email lists. Groups of people with a shared interest, a community of like minds. I have belonged to one such group, the Cyberbees. First there was Rootsweb, an [...]

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Quilt update

I need more 3-day weekends. I just don’t seem to get much sewing done on the regular ones.
Today, I put the borders on the quilt-without-a-name:

I prefer mitered borders to long horizontal/vertical ones, but that Y-seam sure presents a challenge. I’ve done several quilts this way now, but I still can’t say that I do them [...]

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Virginia State Fair

Saturday was the next-to-last day of the Virginia State Fair, held this year at a new location. According to a lady on our tram, it had been held at the Richmond Raceway Complex “forever.” Since I haven’t lived here that long, I cannot confirm or deny her assertion, I just know it had been [...]

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Tablerunner project

I have been remiss in posting for the past few weeks. It seems getting ready for vacation and then the vacation itself pulled my attention elsewhere.
I should have been very excited to show you that over the Labor Day holiday I actually made something! It’s not quilted yet (as are so many of my UFOs) [...]

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New baby

I just found out on Facebook that our niece is expecting their second child. You know what that means, a quilt!
I just bought this Karen DuMont “KariePatch Designs” pattern after seeing the shop sample at Quilting Adventures. It’s soooo cute. But it’s girly. I really hope Sabrina has a boy, because we need to keep [...]

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EQ6 frustration resolved! Mostly…

In our last episode, I was tearing my hair out trying to draw a scalloped border for the unnamed quilt. This exercise really illustrates how math-challenged I am, because this is obviously a math test.
I dug around in my bookcase and came up with Patti Anderson’s EQ5 Drawing book. Guess what? It has a chapter [...]

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EQ6 frustration

I should emphasize here that my frustration is with myself, in the fact that I have ZERO artistic vision and can’t seem to draw something in EQ6 that I can see with my own eyes. Heaven help me if I ever thought I could draw something original.
Here’s my problem:
The unnamed quilt definitely needs a border. [...]

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Quick tip for better accuracy

If you don’t have this book, you’re missing out:

I highly recommend it. Sally Collins is an incredible quiltmaker and she’s got a lot of good advice to help improve the accuracy of your cutting and sewing.
I’ll give you one tip from the book. Using super-fine pins when matching seams and points gives you greater accuracy [...]

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