sulky thread

Yesterday’s Rolling Snowman placemats are done and with Christmas just around the corner I thought I would share with you a project that can be made in no time at all. We all end up needing a last minute gift or decoration so why not follow along and make this…

I love thread! Thread comes in such a wide variety of colors, weights, shines and shapes of spools. Lately I have been doing a lot of playing with heavier weight threads in my machine and have been very impressed with the outcome and look that I get from quilting with…

Yesterday, I kept track of everything and was able to put all those squares together without any reverse sewing thanks to those great organization tips I used. They sure made life much easier. I’ve put the borders on and now it is time to think about quilting this masterpiece. There…

Those big white squares around the lone star need to be filled in – too stark and blank for me and there isn’t enough of the dark grey fabric in the quilt. I’ll use it for the binding and applique to tie it to the stripes in the star. So…

Last month I spent the week talking about color and the color wheel. I made a monochromatic pillow using different elements of design. This week I’m going to continue on with the color series as we only touched on a couple of different color schemes that the color wheel has…