Quarantine Quilting Week 7: Stippling, Knots and Hikes
This week I concluded, there is hope that I can finish this quilt in time to be able to submit to the Houston show. Hope, not a slam dunk, hope. I micro-stippled for days-on-end this week. And buried another 1.5 million knots. And just to switch tedious tasks, I finished embellishing 20 feet of rick-rack: […]
Quarantine Quilting Week 6: Plodding along and a machine cleaning tip
It seems like every whole cloth quilt hits a point where the quilting gets tedious. I am at that point on my table cloth whole cloth quilt. I chose to use a 12 wt thread to outline all of the motifs. That is a super beefy thread and I felt like it needed that thickness […]
Quarantine Quilting Week 5 – Four projects at once?
Only when I started putting my post together did I realize that I am working on 4 projects at once – how’d that happen? I’m taking this time to create some new class samples in addition to working on one quilt and rediscovering another. I have this great 8′ x 8′ design walls, one of […]
Quarantine Quilting Week 4 – Frustration and a finish (almost)
I’ve almost finished my virus quilt (no name yet) and have moved on to my tablecloth quilt. I received a sweet reminder note from the Houston people that the due date for submissions to the Houston International Quilt Show was just 4 1/2 weeks away. Yikes – I’d better get busy! But first, my […]
Quarantine Quilting – Week 3, scattered, organizing and playing
I started thinking I did not have much to say this week but a peek at my photos for the week showed otherwise. I have not completed anything but I have worked really hard all week in bits and pieces: This drives me crazy! Working on several projects at a time gives me a mess. […]
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