I had so much fun this week creating my awesome quilted laptop sleeve and yesterday I completed the applique stitching and conquered metallic thread! It’s a great feeling to start and finish a project in the same week. If you’re like me, the last thing I need is...
Thread, thread and more thread – so many different ones to choose from. There’s cotton, polyester, rayon and metallic to name a few. My very first attempt to quilt with metallic thread didn’t go as planned. It was my very first quilt project ever and I wanted it...
Today is going to be so much fun adding the applique to yesterday’s checkerboard background pieces. Although the checkerboard could easily stand on its own I love adding applique and thread to a project creating just a little bit of pizzazz. Onward to applique and the 5 awesome...
Welcome back. Do you have your supplies collected and your strip sets created? Yesterday I finished off the day calculating the size of squares I wanted for my checkerboard background and sewed the strip sets together to create the checkerboard. Today I’m going to walk you through 5...
It’s back to school time! This week’s project is a quilted laptop sleeve that will be the envy of all the students and teachers. While I’m sewing a quilted laptop sleeve I’m also going to have some fun playing with some products I picked up at my local quilt shop....