Thursday, October 27, 2016

Fall is civil war fabric time

This is my current project ...I'm slowly finishing up WIP. This one took 3 hours just to FIND! As I unpack fabric and project boxes I sew a little...organize a little...and donate a lot. It's amazing how much one person can collect!

This is a little mug rug I made with one leftover block.

Digging through my civil war reproduction fabrics, I found a few "tester" blocks.... These are blocks I try out to see how much I like making them before committing to a whole quilt. I like the looks of this block but there's just too many HSTs to do a whole quilt so I decided it would make a cute mug rug.
That's 1/4" binding around it....single fold. 


Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Halloween II


My second Halloween quilt is finished and off to it's new
 house...daughter Jen's. This is another UFO that
has been hanging around for a few years and needed to
be DONE! The spider applique is a glow-in-the-dark fabric
that I think grandson Henry will enjoy.

First quilt finish this year

This is the first finish of 2023!  I wanted to get one of two "great niece " quilts finished. The top was made last year as part o...