Success…and Failure
This last week has been a mix of successes and misses but I’m confident that the misses will enrich my “learning curve”. I’m really trying to get outside of my normal box and when I do that, I’m bound to have some misses. This is a bit of an ADD post since I worked on three separate […]
Three Completed Projects!
Never before in the History of Jenny have three projects been completed within a week of each other! It truly is coincidence that the completion dates ended up so close, as I started Saw Tooth Star in Nov, Daisy Vest in Feb and the SAQA Challenge Quilt this month. It is a rush to actually […]
Blocking Saw Tooth Star
Did you know that even famous, “perfect” quilters have to block their quilts so that they hang straight? They do! I routinely expect to block my quilts. Saw Tooth Star, well, this poor baby really needed a blocking: it had over a 1″ variance in width and the whole quilt is only about 46 1/2″ “square” (square […]
Saw Tooth Star Progress
Just when I thought I had my design decisions made and I was ready for that delightful phase of feathering up the surface of the quilt, I decided I didn’t like my thread choice after all. Look:I love Aurifil 28 wt cotton thread, but I think in this case it gives the motif a “ghosty” […]