Category Archives: Just for fun

Meandering Feathers Rock!

Meandering Feathers Rock!

 

Marilyn’s quilt was perfect for freehand feather meandering.  She wanted something more than a basic meandering but not as much as custom.  It’s hard to see in this picture but we selected a soft green thread to accent the yellow fabric.

The detail shows how the feathers wander around the quilt, I love it!

I’ve been crazy busy lately, quilting quilts and having family fun!

Tomorrow, I’ll be going to a 3 day retreat  to sew all day and maybe all night!  Rainbows and Calico Things Quilt shop has a new retreat room and we’re excited to be the first group to initiate it!  I’ll be working on my UGLY fabric challenge so look for pictures to follow.  If you want to follow my retreat adventures, head over to my Facebook page, I’ll be posting pictures of our adventures!

Have a great weekend, I know I will!!!

🙂 Linda

 

Design Wall Monday and Quilts everywhere!

Design Wall Monday and Quilts everywhere!

 

My PSQ blocks have grown to four!  When I’m short on sewing time or talking on the phone (lol), I sew charms!  I love the way the blocks look set together.  I’ve received over 700 charms in the PSQ Challenge swap and they are all different!  I’m really quite amazed at that.

 

 

 

I’m also working on:

 

Love’s Woven Rectangles is laying on the design “floor”, waiting for sewing.  I’m loving it!

 

 

 

 

 

Squares and Rectangles is pressed and waiting for borders.

 

 

 

 

 

The Purple Trip top is draped over the longarm, finished!  I’m heading over to Rainbows and Calico Things to acquire the backing fabric today.  This quilt will be reversible.  I’ve sewn most of the leftover squares together for the back and will frame it with additional fabric to make it the right size.

 

That’s what happening in my sewing room today!  Later on today, I’ll be loading a customer quilt on the longarm!  What are you doing today?  If you’re in Iowa, join the All Iowa Shop Hop!

Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects!

Thanks for looking!  🙂 Linda

Home from vacation surprises!

Home from vacation surprises!

I love coming home from vacation (I missed my sewing room!) and having fun packages of fabric waiting for me!

My Ugly Fabric Challenge partner has sent me 4 wonderful fabrics, not ugly to me, and a sweet pincushion kit!

And another set of charms arrived from my friend in Australia!

I’m only sad that it’s too late to start sewing!!

More later when I’ve had some sleep!

Linda

Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Spring 2012

Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Spring 2012

Oops, I almost forgot about this!  Thanks to Candace at The Double Nickel Challenge for sparking my memory!  I’m entering a very special quilt that I was finishing at this time last year for my son’s wedding.

  This is what I wrote about making the quilt after I gave it to them.

When Drew and Abby set their wedding date a year and half ago, I was very excited because that would give me lots of time to make a very special quilt for them!   I did not want to make a king size quilt so opted for a lap size knowing that it was doable.  Abby is so artistic and creative which inspired me to start making  “wonky” or irregular log cabin blocks with all the batik scraps left over from many other quilts.  I sorted the fabrics into color groups to organize for sewing the logs from the same color family.  I should have taken a picture while I was sewing, my whole sewing room was covered with little piles of fabric!!  I wanted to quilt it with back and forth feathers which works best set on point.  And then decided to leave off the corner setting triangles leaving the non traditional shape.   Even though I had all this time to sew, I still was finishing the blocks a couple weeks before the wedding and if my sister, Patty, had not encouraged me to keep at it, it would probably still be unfinished!!  So, I stopped sewing blocks and the quilt became the size out of necessity.  The small blocks that where left ended up in the pieced back.

Enjoy the pics and thanks for looking!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Amy’s Creative Side for sponsoring this event!

Here’s a button to take you to the festival to look at all the entries!

Have fun!  Linda

Amy's Creative Side
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