A few pin cushions from Pat’s collection (she has more).
Pin Cushions
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Category Archives: Sewing
Keeping It Simple (2)
Here is my latest quilt, for my sister-in-law. USPS will deliver it today or tomorrow to Texarkana, Texas.
This pattern is the Disappearing Nine Patch. There are about a gazillion ways to arrange the blocks. This quilt top is made with three Asian fabrics (which I adore).
A lot of people quilt their own quilts; I do not. I quilt “by checkbook” and have a professional take care of that part. Thanks to Mary Golden in Cedar Creek, Texas, for her expertise and her longarm quilting machine.
Three fabrics in a Disappearing Nine Patch arrangement
The back of the quilt.
Keeping It Simple
I discovered that I actually can make large quilts, as long as I use simple patterns. These are the quilts I made for my uncles. I made the quilt tops and backings and had them professionally quilted. I’m not into struggling to quilt large projects on my home sewing machine.
A big Thank You goes to the USPS: I mailed these quilts from Buda, Texas on a Saturday and both were delivered to my uncles (one in Colorado, one in east Texas) the following Monday.
Quilt for Uncle Rod
Quilt for Uncle Roger
Patterns: Black & White
I decided to stay close to home for this challenge and looked at my sewing projects in black and white. Not all of them showed a lot of contrast without their colors, but a few did.
A red, black, and white bowl I made for Shelly.
A 9-patch quilt from 2010
A quilt with wildflower fabrics (color photo scheduled to post 15 Nov 2015)
A blue and black jelly roll quilt. (Color photo scheduled to post 15 Nov 2015)
Quilt Leftovers
And another fabric bowl. I made this one out of leftover fabric from a quilt. I never know how the fabric pattern will look once it’s wound around the cord and sewn together.
Fabric bowl from leftover quilt fabric
Already in use
It’s a good size for my pens, pencils, and eraser; easy to keep track of them this way.
(I found this post in my Draft folder, dated from February. Just a wee bit late.)
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