Category: star quilt
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Why oh Y?
I fell in love with this pattern, which I found in Quiltmania magazine (I’ll put the name and designer of the quilt here when I find the mag!). Finished the binding and took this photo- should have pressed the quilt and changed out of my PJs! The challenge in this quilt was that almost every…
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Play Day
I really appreciate those days when I put aside everything that I need to do, and just play. I pinned a block on Pinterest called Ellen’s Snowball last year, and a year later I still love it, so I decided to make one, in shades of blue. It is paper pieced, which I have not done…
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Kathy Doughty’s Comin’ To Town
Kathy Doughty, of Material Obsessions, will be in Toronto this summer doing 4 days of workshops, along with a trunk show/lecture. She is being hosted by Quilts at the Creek, and you can find out about this fabulous outdoor show (and enter a quilt or two!) on their blog. I have always been totally impressed…
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Works in progress
I broke the 5th metatarsal in my right foot 2 months ago, which meant I could hobble to work and back, but otherwise I spent a lot of time at home. The upside is that I managed to move a few quilts closer to completion… and start a few new ones- yeah! First, I got…
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Done and done
I had a few quilts in the 2013 Quilts at the Creek show two weeks ago. This is an outdoor show at Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto- what a great place to display quilts. They look incredible swaying in the breeze, and come home smelling SO fresh. Here are two of my entries.. This…
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Another baby…
Yes, another baby from a lab member is due pretty darn soon. This is a such busy time for me right now- my son gets married in 5 weeks (yeah!), our lab moves in July, and I have a major quilt show coming up in August- more about that later! So I took a day…