I finally had a few minutes to myself this week and got the borders sewed on to my Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal quilt! I chose to put a three inch white border around and then a three inch yellow print border around that. I think it’s going to look really nice with… Continue reading In Progress – Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt
So after having made almost 2500 hexies for my Ten Year Plan Quilt, I decided I’d better try sewing a few together to make sure that part wasn’t going to be a deal breaker. 😀 Last Friday, I made up 42 hexies from a mini charm pack of Kate Spain’s Jingle fabric and got to… Continue reading In Progress – Christmas Hexies
For Q3 of the 2016 Finish-A-Long, I proposed ten projects and I finished five of them! Yay me! For Q4, I’m proposing eight nine* projects and I’m really excited about all of them. 🙂 Here are the details: *Edited on October 12, 2016 to add one more project. This edit was done before the October… Continue reading In Progress – 2016 Finish-A-Long – Q4 Proposed Finishes
This past weekend at the Sew Virginia Beach 2016 retreat, I finally got my Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal quilt top finished! I’m so excited to get this one done, because it’s for our bed, but I have to wait until the line debuts in October so that I can get fabric for… Continue reading In Progress – Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt
Yay for a new beach quilt!! I fell in love with the Paradiso line by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics as soon as I saw the announcement all those months ago. I knew it would be perfect for a new beach quilt. I used six charm packs for the top and some of the leftovers… Continue reading FINISHED!! – Paradiso Beach Quilt
I finally decided to send my North Woods HST Strip Quilt off to Robin at Ormond Beach Quilts for her to quilt it. We decided on Wonderland Stars 2 for the quilting pattern. Here’s a close-up of how that came out. I chose Cranberry Rosemaling and Icicle Garland, both from the North Woods line for… Continue reading FINISHED!! – North Woods HST Strip Quilt
I’m so happy with my progress on my Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal quilt! I just need to finish up the letter X blocks and then I can assemble the top. Here are some progress pictures so far. Snowballing the corners of the letter O center blocks: Corner cut offs from the snowballed… Continue reading In Progress – Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt
I took a little weekend trip for a high school reunion (25 years since we graduated!!) with no husband and no kids this past weekend. I got to watch whatever I wanted to watch on TV and order room service and stitch hexies! I got a LOT of hexies stitched! 🙂 Kate Spain – Aria… Continue reading In Progress – Ten Year Plan Quilt
This quilt is the same two blocks over and over, so there will be quite a bit of chain piecing. I started on the half square triangles today. I matched up the 224 patterned squares with the 224 white squares and sewed all the seams. It turned out to be quite a pile! I clipped… Continue reading In Progress – Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt
The Tour de France finished in Paris yesterday and NASCAR had a race at Indianapolis, so I had plenty of time for stitching hexies. I finished up four more sets! 🙂 Kate Spain – Canyon: Bonnie & Camille – Vintage Picnic: Bonnie & Camille – Daysail: Bonnie & Camille – Miss Kate: Progress update: 42… Continue reading In Progress – Ten Year Plan Quilt
