Monday, March 04, 2024

A "normal" block

It felt so good to stitch this block.  I felt like I was doing something "normal" after the dogs quilt.  LOL

Sunday, March 03, 2024

And it's a top

One of my goals for the weekend was to get the borders on this quilt.  And here it is!  It is nearly a square quilt, the length is about two inches shorter than the width.  I'm proud of it as it was a lot of work to get the dogs all facing the correct direction!  Now I need to piece some minky for the backing. . .

After this is quilted and bound, I plan to snuggle with it on the sofa-with my dog!

Friday, March 01, 2024

A stop border. . .

I was going to add a 2.5 inch stop border but had a re-think and went for 1.5.  It will finish at 1 inch which feels right.  I still need to cut and add the dog border fabric. The stop border is a little ruffly so I may need to re-do it.  

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Friday, February 23, 2024

A little hexie love

So the company, Paper Pieces, hands out these little sample kits at the Houston Quilt Festival every year.  I usually share mine-like I got my sister hooked-but I've never done one.  So I pulled one out and stitched up this hexie goodness.  I plan to applique it on red fabric and make a mug rug out of it.

The instruction page from Paper Pieces warns that hexies are addictive.  This is most certainly true!!

Monday, February 12, 2024

Gone to the dogs

 
So I am working on a sample quilt for my book club.  This is the Reflections pattern by Karen Montgomery.  (It's basically a delectable mountains block.)  I had planned to use this funky fabric but as I was digging around for brown fabric in my stash I came across these dogs and was smitten!  I had to use them.  Of course, I couldn't make it easy on myself.

The first block showed me that I, after cutting the fabric as instructed, would have to have the blocks in a vertical orientation.  I really prefer the horizontal version. Can you see how the dogs are facing?  So I cut another test block and got all of the dogs going the right way.  I'm leaving out lots of cutting errors as I sub-cut the pieced blocks (grrrr).  I had to get DH to help me lay out the blocks as it was!  Tonight I'm hoping to get another full block pieced so I can try the alternating blocks.  I'm hoping to have this finished for Book Club on Saturday so I really need to spend some time.  I had two yards of the dog fabric and I was hoping to have some for a border but it's not looking good.  And this is really old fabric!!


A cute little top

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