A co-worker has close connections with Uganda. She does charitable work there and is now helping a second generation get basic and advanced education. She returned from a recent trip with fabric: Twenty assorted fat quarters.

Could I make her a Ugandan holiday set for her home?

What a fun challenge! (At least it felt fun after she told me she had been considering this for 10 years and certainly didn’t need it THIS Christmas.)

I have two parts to the stage of finished tops:

Tree Skirt

Table Runner

A throw quilt (supplemented with solids from my stash) is ...

Pattern: Norwegian magazine «Familien» 24/2022. It has also been available at quilte.net

From time to time, I have to decrease the amount of quilted and crafted items in the house or I would be covered up in them. So, time for a sample sale, to move some things into other hands. I have some cards left as well that were not appropriate for Safelight but still fun, so those are up for sale, too. This is a great time to pick up a gift for someone, or treat yourself. Particularly for my readers who do not quilt, you can have a handmade, unique item for your decor or to give to a ...

In this show Vanessa has lots to share including:

• a super quick and easy, no waste table runner demo with her 10” Slicer ruler
• machine embroidery projects she’s been making (Trigger warning: Roaches!)
• a fun sublimated mug she made with a new auto heat press machine she got
• the clapper story continues (from last episode- WIP Wednesday #123)

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0:24 – Welcome to WIP Wednesday #124!

1:53 – The clapper fiasco update ...

I have been bitten by the machine embroidery bug, and February is National Embroidery Month. It is a good time to explore more ideas and projects to use this machine capability. Now that I have a good combination of stabilizers, the designs are coming out well. I still have the problem of some thread breakage, and seems to be worse on darker colors. Amazingly, my older Sulky rayon threads do not have as much of a problem with this as the newer Floriani threads. Quality products are hard to find these days. Anyway, on a recent newsletter from one of ...

 Hey Sweet Friends!  The last UFO for 2023 was one of the smallest projects in the waiting to be quilted pile.  If your interested in it's history  click here.

It seems to take me a long time to get a finish. Procrastination. Lazy. Too much else on my plate. Whatever the excuse, I finished three since the last post. 

These two are for refugees, the same family as three recently posted. They are a mom/dad and their adult children -- two young men and two young women. Beautiful people. They show their quilts off to every visitor! These two are similar. Both guys sent a picture of what they liked, and one of the pictures had a beautiful woman in it. 

That helped me work faster because this guy ...

I pulled out this table runner UFO before finishing the last UFO quilt project, Cabin In The Woods.  The current new quilt plan was already in motion but one more small UFO for the year might be possible if I manage my time wisely.

It would quilt up quickly since it's so small. This table runner was probably made in 2014 or 15. 

Making a runner

 Nine months out of the year I am an intervention RTI teacher but in the summer months I am a full time quilter.  I sew as much as I can in between being a wife and a mother/grandmother.  I haven't shown my summertime finishes in a while and I wanted to share some of the things I have made.  Not everyone would like for me to share their t-shirt/memory quilts so I will just tell you how many I made since June 1st.

I've made 12 T-shirt quilts!  (If you'd like more info on getting ...

Forgot to make a list last week! Never mind...I do know what I had in mind of finishing.

I have a free pattern for you today–The Liberty Table Runner. Look for the pattern in the Free Resource Library. This project took a very different turn from what I imagined. During my recent retreat, I pieced a little variable star top and thought I might want to adapt it to make a table runner. That came together with another idea and became this patriotic table runner. The twist comes because there are no variable star blocks. That makes it a super easy and fast runner to construct.

I am at my mom’s house, so have a very ...

Well, I had an interesting two weeks. I have been working steadily away on my 'formal' table runner. It took ages to do the grid on there and I decided to take out the markings closer to the end as I found the blue lines were starting to be very distracting in terms of deciding whether to fill more or leave it.