When the festive season surrounding the holidays is done and it’s not quite spring yet, there is this period of Bleh. It doesn’t help that Vancouver has been enveloped in a dense fog for days. The eerie scene pierced by fog horns is actually pretty cool and keeps all sorts of nautical disasters from happening. I’ve heard that it’s bright and sunny on our local mountains, thanks to temperature inversion. Spring will be here before we know it. In the meantime, I’m going to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: WIP Wednesday
Finish Line… Almost!
Remember this quilt top I showed you a while ago? The massive thing is now quilted. Actually, I finished the quilting soon after I wrote that post and then I folded it up and put it away in the linen closet. Well, the little girl who has laid claim to this quilt said to me on New Year’s Day complete with hand on hip, “Mama, do you think you can finish my quilt in 2015?”. Miss Sass, I tell ya!! I’ve had the binding prepped… Read more »
Mini Mittens… Take 2!
This is “Take 2” because I accidentally published this post with no pictures! Boo!! While I was looking at the directions to make my mason jar pin cushion, I found another adorable tutorial. This one is for tiny felt mittens. Really, these things are so much fun to put together and there are so many ways each little mitt can be decorated. I want to make a few of these to gift and a few for our tree, they are pretty quick… Read more »
Quilting The Beast
I began this project totally clueless about the size of the end result. I’m attributing that to my quilting newbie-ish-ness. I had a couple (3 maybe?) charm packs of Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille for Moda. I decided that these would be great to make the perfect snuggle quilt, you know the kind you want to snuggle with while reading a book or watching TV. I began slicing and sewing them to make blocks and had a nice stack going. I sashed each block using… Read more »
