For "First Project" prompt in the 31 Day Blog Challenge, I want to share my first longarm project. I bought a longarm quilting machine just two short years after I made my first quilt. So many ideas were swirling in my brain while I sewed the quilt blocks that I knew I wanted control of the entire p...
Where do you create your quilted masterpieces? Let me take you on a sewing room tour. My time and attention is divided between piecing quilts in my sewing room and free motion quilting on my longarm.
Sewing Room Tour
My sewing room is a mess so I will just share strategic photos. I don’t want ...
Last week, I shared some of the filler designs on my Arizona Flag quilt.
Since I was inspired to make this quilt for Arizona's statehood centennial, I wanted to include some of my state's history. Schoolchildren in Arizona learn the 5 C's that were key to local industry: cotton, copper, climate,...
Making a postage stamp quilt, with thousands of tiny pieces, was on my bucket list when buzz started about Arizona's Centennial anniversary of statehood celebration.
The resulting quilt had 2,012 pieces in honor of our state birthday in 2012. I will tell the whole story in a future post, but tod...
Last week I shared the plan for several border designs. I finished the quilt and I'd like to explain the designs in more detail.
The quilt is for a school raffle and each child made a hand and footprint angel. Simple echoes around each angel let their artwork shine.
Woodgrain stitching
I filled...
