It’s amazing what I can accomplish when I don’t have committments outside of work. After blogging last night, I got to work on finishing my Nook case. I cut down the fabric and started quilting. Since I only need a scrap-size piece of batting, I had many choices to choose from. I went with fusible batting. It was very easy to work with and didn’t require any pinning. Originally, I planned on quilting a stippling design. [...]

I just published a couple of posts that were stuck in draft status when I thought they published. I really need to be careful. So even though the content is out of order, all of it is there. I mostly do this for my own sake. It makes me feel better to see my projects move along. Really I need to figure out how to change the post dates. Then my content will appear in [...]

On Friday evening, I was super excited to sew. It was my first chance to sit down and sew all week, and I was ready to make some serious head way on my newest project. I had already cut out all the wedges for Oh, Fransson’s New Wave quilt. the sashing fabric was ready to go. So I started to get moving on the project. Now the instruction suggest determining the layout before sewing on [...]

For the most part, I’ve been fairly loyal to local quilt shops and have avoided buying my fabric online.  Well, I’ve decided that as much as I love my local quilt shops, they just don’t carry what I want. Well more like, I’d need to go to several stores to get what I want, and I simply don’t have the time for it. So, I bought a custom pack of 1/2 yard prints from Fabric [...]

For Christmas, I got a NOOKColor, which I love, love, love. Now I can’t be a normal person and just buy a ready-made cover. I have to make my own. I further complicate the matter by imagining elaborate designs for my little nook cover. Lately, I’ve really been bewitched by a couple of quilts using diamonds. Now by no means is this a new design, but executed with just the right fabrics it looks rather [...]

I finished with days to spare. Final thoughts… Pattern: As I mentioned before, I used the New Wave pattern from Oh Fransson! No regrets in choosing this pattern. If I use this design again, I think I’d use an odd number of fabrics so the end blocks tumble the same. That’s a personal preference. Also I highly recommend laying out the fabric so the sashing gets sewn on the correct side of the block. I [...]