Sewing

Someone in my guild pieced this cheerful quilt top and donated it to the committee that provides quilts to kids. I noticed it at our last workday, and took it to do the quilting part. I used a soft muslin for the backing, and 100% …

I had a nice surprise at my quilt guild meeting when it was our 30th anniversary year, which brought extra treats and celebrations. Each month a member prize was given to a person chosen by a random drawing. If that person was wearing his or …

On this Valentine’s Day I would like to share on my first quilts, a scrappy, pink log cabin. The very first quilt I made was a log cabin. I learned how to quilt by taking a class that taught this block. It is a great …

Like most other sewists and crafters, my New Year’s mindset focused on organization and inventory of unfinished projects. Everyone is talking about Marie Kondo right now, the organizational specialist who approaches clutter in living space with a spiritual mindfulness. I’m not there yet. The past …

I’m behind in posting but I wanted to share my bit of Sewing Sustainability for the month of January. I am working on a T-shirt quilt for a family member and after cutting away the image from the T-shirt front, there is a lot of …

Like many of us, my resolution for the new year is to complete unfinished projects. During the holidays I was fortunate to have some days off that I could spend at home, which I used to organize my sewing room. I found three half completed …

Over the 2018 Christmas holiday season I was able to accomplish quite a bit of sorting of my sewing related projects. I have several things that are at least 50% completed. I regret that I had so many partially finished projects, but I know that …

Today I’m reviewing Roxanne’s Glue-Baste-It from the perspective of a quilter. I first purchased this product to use to improve the precision of my quilt construction. When sewing fabric pieces together to make blocks, I have found that the glue basting technique is very helpful …