Showing posts with label wallhanging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wallhanging. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Look What I Did!

 It is complete--I even cut a dowel and applied a twisted cord to hang it!
I think Will enjoy having a paper on display-math or artwork are his favorites right now.
I will give it to him next week.
 I also completed and washed the sampler quilt!
This crinkled in just the right way-it feels like an old quilt much loved already.
 I had a few favorite blocks;
the quilting was loose and spontaneous on each block.
 Yet, I kept some elements to repeat so that they would have some unity.
 I enjoyed just quilting and not worrying about particulars!
I quilted all of the borders and sashes with the same motif, though.
 And I remembered to include my label.
This will go into the donation box , if my daughter doesn't want it back.
 And I finally remembered to purchase a yard and a half  of flannel backing
 so I could load the flannel quilt top!
I am quilting this with a loose free motion meander which is very quick;
it was loaded, layered and then half of the quilting was done in half an hour!

But this leaves me with an empty design wall!
Time to pull out that languishing quilt kit!
(such a hardship-not at all! lol)
Oh, and I added a knit block to the sampler blanket
made on the knitting machine.
(the block on the lower right-the cabled block)
It was my first forage into cables on the machine and it was easy to do and the results are pleasing.
Nice to have a successful first attempt.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Squared Away!

I managed to place all my applique pieces in place 
and then stitch them down with invisible thread.
The borders are selected but not sewn in place yet
but it sure is nice to see the conclusion is going to be a good one,
if I do say so myself!

(I had this scheduled to post at 6;30 this morning but I clicked the wrong button
and it was scheduled to post at 6:30 this pm....sigh.)

ME AND MY SHADOW

We enjoyed a relaxing time first thing in the morning listening to the birds and watching the day emerge. She napped while I put the finishi...