The past few days I have been getting the quilt top finished and ready for the quilting stage. It has been a lot of fun seeing how the the three different blocks and the applique pieces for the What’s Good For the Gal Is Good For the Guy quilt have…
Happy Boxing Day! Since we were all spoiled yesterday and I’m officially sick of shopping, I’m not going anywhere near the Boxing Day sales today. Instead, I’ll spend some of the day in my quilting studio finishing my peony quilt. Today, I’ll be trimming the quilt, sewing the binding and…
Last month I started the holiday table runner. I made many quarter square triangles and put them together to make the star blocks, which make up the center of the runner. Then, I made more quarter square triangles and got as far as the borders. Today, we are going to…
Start your engines – or, in our case, “Thread your machines” Now that our quilt top is assembled and our quilt sandwich is layered, it’s finally time to start quilting and embellishing the Christmas tree quilt. The first thing we need to do is thread our machines with the Spotlite…
Our applique shapes are all secured and look awesome with the Dazzle threads couched along the edge. I’ve never used this technique before but now that I see how easy and effective it is, I think I’ll be using it again in the near future!! So now we just need…