How I spend my time frolicking in the fabric instead of stressing out
More photos of the three-dimensional house I created for my Mother’s 80th birthday six years ago. The house can be taken apart so you can see the photos transferred onto fabric inside. Then it can be buttoned back together again to form a house.
In 2010, I spent about 35 hours designing and making this little quilted house for my mom’s birthday. The house is 3.5″ x 3″ and 5″ tall. The base is 8″ x 9″. It is made of silk fabric, photos transferred onto fabric, beads, yarn, charms, buttons
This is a simple quilt I made a few years ago for my 8th grandchild. After I made the front, then used the extra strips for the back, I thought I liked the
Here is a photo of the tiny quilt I made in 2007 called “Bright Nativity with Porcelain Buttons”. Notice the background night sky. It is made out of my original technique which I call “Haphazard Piecing.” I had a plexiglass cookbook holder that was just
I can’t believe I am making this quilt, since it is so opposite from what I usually do. This quilt is made with a special ruler for making pineapple blocks, and everything is sewn so accurately, it is a nice counterpoint to the uneven/haphazard/freehand lines
I love this mini quilt, and can’t wait to finish it. I love the curved sashing I inserted between the rows of crooked log cabin blocks. I just can’t figure out what to do next. I hope I can figure it out soon, I will
My daughter didn’t have much money to buy gifts this year, so she came to my house and sewed these little gifts for her boyfriend’s sisters. She sewed strips of fabric together, then cut an initial out of black fabric with fusible web on the
Here are Annie Smith and I in a limousine as we arrived at the 2015 Bernina Ambassador’s Reunion in Aurora, Illinois. (Her blog is http://simplearts.com/blogs/ And here is a new friend of mine, Christa Watson. Her website is http://christaquilts.com/
On Jan. 11,2016 I taught my class entitled “Good Neighbors” at Thimble Pleasures in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My students needed to make the “haphazard pieced” backgrounds which we would later become the background that we would fuse the houses to, so we worked on that
This post should have been put on my blog a year and a half ago. However, I just found the photos, so I thought I would put them on anyway. I got to know Gina Perkes at the 2014 Bernina event, what a sweet woman