July 3, 2014

I stay very busy this time of year doing this:

I have started listening to craftsy videos while I process vegetables. Hey, I'm the queen of multi-tasking. Our tiny garden makes a ridiculous amount of food. Next week, I'll be making pickles, since I have cucumbers coming out my ears.

I spent the weekend making  two baby quilts. So many babies on the way!

I made miles of binding. At least it felt like miles.

I'm almost finished with my submission to What's for Dinner? at Houston. 

Yesterday, I got the most amazing news about my piece It's Not the House, which I submitted to the HOME competition at Houston. It got in!!!!!! I'm still in shock. In shock, I tell you. 

Can't post photos of those quilts  yet, though.

April 3, 2014

Working on a vest for my friend Lee. We're swapping handmade gifts.

Improvisational piecing, not something I do a ton of. I made a pattern from one of her existing vests.

Panels sewn together and quilted. 

My seven year old took a photo of me quilting.

 front

back

Edged with bias binding. Just need to sew down the binding on the inside, figure out some sort of closure.

September 25, 2013

trying a new embellishment idea on my binding. it was a bad binding day...ripped the first binding off twice before i decided to just start over. like this choice better anyway. maybe my subconscious was trying to tell me that.

August 29, 2013

I didn't feel like piecing or painting or much of anything. So I pulled out this top and started quilting. Lovely, mindless work.

went ahead and made binding, and got it sewn on.

July 16, 2013

I finished the binding today. It was a good day to lower the air conditioner and have a Doctor Who marathon.

February 3, 2013

 got binding sewn on this one.

pulled out this UFO. won in a BOM drawing. maybe i can finish it for end of march.

my helper matched the color scheme and just had to be in the photo!

October 13, 2012

binding, scrappy binding, binding