After 15 years of sitting in a drawer...
the Drunkards Path Quilt Top is DONE !
Now I need to paw through the fabric
cupboards and find something
that will work for a backing...
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LuAnn Kessi
Earth Day is approaching soon and since textiles lovers are big material consumables, we should try to do our part to save the earth. Most of us have the condition Stable Syndrome or “stash accumulated beyond life expectancy.” As you know, to aid the world the first rule is to reduce. So, to celebrate Earth Day, why not see how much fabric you can use from your stash. That’s right, sew away for the day! (If you need to buy a few pieces of new fabric to make use of the stash, no worries, it was already made and ...
read moreI spent some time in the Thread Shed
yesterday piecing the last 2 seams
of the Wild Goose Chase quilt top:
I put it back on the design wall
and noticed that the very last flying goose
on the bottom right corner...
is upside down.
Time to get out the seam ripper !
Wild Goose Chase 56 x 66
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This is what the improv piece looked
like a week ago on the design wall:
I am in the process of adding a new row
to the right side...
then I can piece all ...
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In the last 2 weeks I have spent some time
with my latest improv project...
I spent this week with the
at the HVQ Spring Quilt Retreat 2022
This is what the sewing table looks like
out in the Thread Shed today...
I am making progress on this
Improv Quilt Top:
while attending a quilt retreat in Idaho
At the Houston Quilt Festival this year there was a grouping of quilts called Tactile Architecture which had several unique approaches to the theme. It made me ponder the use of architecture in quilts. Certainly, we see the use of buildings in the Baltimore Album Quilts using applique to create the buildings. In fact, it was sometimes the buildings which helped trace the quilt's origins. The Tristan Quilt, also known as the Guicciardini Quilt is one of the earliest surviving quilts and re-creates scenes from the story of Tristan and Isolde. It tells the tragic story of two doomed ...
Applique is fabric applied or "laid on" to a background fabric. The technique has been around for centuries and used on clothing, tents, animal blankets and other everyday items. One of the older surviving examples of applique is an Egyptian canopy quilt from 980. B.C. Different cultures developed different uses for applique and in the US the development of a “quilt culture” supported a long history of applique. The applique quilt is usually “designed” as opposed to leftover scraps pieced together randomly. Applique quilts can be made of a repeated block or an album with a variety of different ...
It's official....
My first Fabulous Finish for 2022
I read somewhere recently that it was...
Clean Off Your Desk Day
I decided to put this into good use
in the Thread Shed:
This Improv 9 Patch continues to be my
summer piecing project:
The Improv 9 Patch is evolving...
Design Wall 1
We are 2 weeks into Hay Season...
I spent the day with my Monday quilt group...
Trimming...
Strawberry Alice has a new heifer calf.....Silky
On Mondays I stitch with
Every Monday I spend the day with
The Harlan Valley Quilters
Pick Up Stix blocks...
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I have decided to incorporate
flying geese blocks
into the Orange Peel/Pumpkins Seed quilt top...
The Quilt Retreat gave me a great start ...
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