Saturday, November 8, 2014

Miles of Triangles & More


I always enjoy seeing these beautiful trees in the fall. There are few leaves left now but the colors were just gorgeous!
I've been working on hundreds of half square triangles for my Words to Live By quilt, the SBOW for 2013 from Primitive Gatherings. I've had them all ready to sew but just kept putting it off. However, I can't finish the quilt until they are sewn so half are done. It's hard for me to be exactly accurate so one was 1/2" too long and one 1/2" too short. Maybe this third will be just right. I just have to fudge a little and make them work.
 I've sewn a couple more Farmer's Wife Quilt Blocks - the fabrics are what makes these little blocks.
One more block in my Primitive Garden!
An 8" quilt for a friend's 70th birthday. Our group makes birthday quilts for special years and this time, like mine, it will be small quilts all attached to each other and she loves cats.
I just love this picture! We kept our grandchildren and took them to a fall festival. He won the little pirate's patch and put it on. It was so cute how he felt like he had to close his eyes to wear it. Love the sweet smile and apple painted on his cheek!

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Current Projects

The center for my Di Ford quilt - I am getting more broderie perse appliqué sewn down. I had to redo my stems - I realized I had made them too large for this setting so instead of always wishing I had changed them, I JUST DID IT. Now it looks much better!
 I sewed the binding on the medallion quilt - again, by machine. Still working on getting my settings just right. I used the walking foot both times to get it to feed more evenly for me.
 One more block in my Primitive Garden quilt - birdhouses! It's a long block so I divided it into 3 pictures!
 I really enjoy watching birds in our backyard and
identifying all the different ones that come to the feeder!
Take some time to stitch today!