Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen my sewing machine on a couple of rare moments, just enough to finish a couple of projects. I’ve been working on this pillow for my bed over the last couple of months. I really thought I’d finish it in March. Boy was I wrong. I finished it last week. It now resides on my bed. And when I turn my back. Calypso claims it as her own. [...]

After spending the day on the quilt market floor, I head to the Quilt Market Meetup with my friends. Wow! Talk about a lot of quilting peeps. It was overwhelming to be around so many amazing quilters. Everybody was oh so friendly. Of course they lined up great give-a-ways. At our table, everybody won something. Amy and I scored our very own Slice machines. Fun! I did play with mine for a bit. I’ll write [...]

On Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend a day at Quilt Market as a perk from the business my mom is getting going, more on that later. Not only was the day spent with good quilting friends, we found a couple of sponsored challenges for the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild, again details are still being flushed out. If you want more info, come to the guild meeting on Thursday. The Kona booth was [...]

At the beginning of the month, I started working on a disappearing four-patch quilt. All the blocks are sewn into four patches. I started with a layer cake. I’ve managed to finish a handful of blocks. Now I’d have another pair of block, but I made a mistake. I cut in the wrong place. Ugh!!! I’m contemplating how I should handle the situation. I can use less blocks in the quilt, buy another charm pack [...]

Late Saturday night, I sewed the last stitch in the binding. From start to end it took four hours to attach the binding. I sewed both sides by machine starting my sewing it to the front first. This method worked out better for me than sewing the binding on the back first. Does that make sense? And here it is on my bed: I had zero luck in getting a picture without cats. I was [...]

Yep. That’s right. I’m done quilting the queen-size quilt. I even attached a label. Tomorrow it is all about the binding.