Even though we woke her up in the middle of the night to come help at Bennet’s birth Sciarrino managed to grab the birthday present she’d made for the baby. She made up this sweet wonky stars quilt with some cottons we’d got at quilt guild and shirting. The shirting has a really great subtle …
Category Archives: quilting
The (new) Baby Blanket
I thought it would be nice to make something up specifically for this baby. I have lots of wonderful handmade things that the baby will use, but almost all are hand me downs from Tuesday’s time as a little one. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that at all, and it has made …
One of Many
Oh how I am addicted to this simple fun pattern (free pattern found here). This is the second one I pieced, the first top was pretty much the same as the example. Making up different color combinations is so much fun! I chose to do the back simple, in a Kona solid. I love how …
Far too much fun with the sewing machine
I have mentioned this again and again, the way I go into spurts of different crafting/hobby obsessions. Right now I’m in full on sewing mode. I even made Tuesday a swimsuit! I mean it turned out horrible and totally showed her nipples so there is no way she can wear it, but come on! So …
Oh those triangles.
Oh this quilt. Oh those triangles. I’m not going to lie, this quilt has just been a pain in ass since I started it. Seriously. I can’t find any post about when I started it (because I still need to go back and organize 2005-2009), but I did find this one about pre-washing all my …
I wish I was a little bit taller…
Anyone want to finish that line? 🙂 I had my mom hold up a newly completed quilt, but I need a little bit taller someone to try again because I couldn’t quite get the whole thing just right. And since I started this thing untold many years ago I figure I should take some proper …
What’s old is new again
In the past year I’ve spend hours dealing with my sewing machine. Dropping it off no less than SEVEN times to get it repaired (for a tension issue, “we’ve never seen before”). I couldn’t do anything with topstitching, including quilting, because I never knew when I’d get little loops on the bottom of my sewing. …
Quiet
Usually I have no excuse for forgetting to blog for a few days, but right now I do. In the Bj-just-can’t-get-a-break category he is away attending a funeral… times two. His maternal grandpa has been fighting throat cancer (note: if you smoke look this up, maybe you will finally quit—it’s terrible!) and lost the battle …
Where did the week go?
I’m not sure. But hopefully my weekend will be filled with lots of: (I’ve managed to cobble together a decent set of “light” scraps for the quilt a long) Of the brights I still have way to many. Of course I should be working on this long neglected project: But my new yarn: And some …
Be a Joiner
Yesterday Sciarrino and I drove up to the first meeting of the Portland chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild. I didn’t really know what to expect, having never been in a guild of any kind before. I was hoping that I would meet some like minded fabric lovers, and guess what I did! We did …