Note: This blog post is the last in a series of four. Starting with the first post is recommended. You can find the links to the other posts here:Part 1 (My Mother’s Quilt) / Part 2 (The Quilting Process) / Part 3 (Quilt Cleaning) We’ve come to the end of this 40 year journey. The quilt was pieced by my…
Note: This blog post is the third in a series of four. Starting with the first post is recommended. You can find the links to the other posts here: Part 1 (My Mother’s Quilt) / Part 2 (The Quilting Process) / Part 4 (The Finished Quilt) A lot of sewists are scared of buttonholes. I get it! Your trusty sewing…
Note: This blog post is the second in a series of four. Starting with the first post is recommended. You can find the links to the other posts here: Part 1 (My Mother’s Quilt) / Part 3 (Quilt Cleaning) / Part 4 (The Finished Quilt) I know from talking to other crafty people that there are so many families with…
Happy New Year! I ended 2022 by finishing and delivering this quilt to my friends, as a wedding gift for their wedding that happened in October 2019. No, it did not take me three years to make this. I just didn’t have time to make it at the time because I was bogged down in sewing my bridesmaid dress and…
Sometimes I feel like I live in a strange middle ground in the sewing community. I sew pretty much all of my clothes, but I also really enjoy quilting. It’s a funny thing because I know a lot of garment sewists either strongly fear or strongly dislike quilting, and a lot of people who quilt are capital Q Quilters who…
