For awhile now (like, longer than my friends have been having babies) I’ve really wanted to do a chevron quilt inspired by this zig zag quilt on the Purl Bee. I love it’s simplicity and bright colors so when I found there was a new baby joining the mix I jumped on the opportunity. (Again, [...]
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2012 is going to be the year of the baby! I am so lucky to have all sorts of little ones joining my friends and family this year which is a great excuse to do a bit of quilting! Sewing baby quilts is wonderful because they are small projects so I usually can finish before [...]
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Do you remember back in May I scored these chairs from a local thrift store for $7 each? Well, A moved them down into the basement for me and I proceeded to tear one of them to pieces… only to come to a complete halt. I can’t find a fabric that I want to use! [...]
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About a year ago I had a wave of inspiration… I was coordinating a trade show exhibit for my client at the AAHOA conference (Asian American Hotel Owners Association) and admiring the saris that the women were wearing for the formal dinner that evening. I had a thought, that I think most people don’t have [...]
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My feelings on houndstooth are much like my feelings on faux bois: if it’s used correctly it’s awesome. If it’s used incorrectly… it might look a little retro-in-the-bad-way. I picked up a light green houndstooth almost a year ago to reupholster one of my dining room chairs, but quickly realized the green was all off [...]
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Towards the end of college I became infatuated with quilts from Gee’s Bend. That link will have tons of info, but the short history is that Gee’s Bend was a teeny-tiny town in Alabama that was created from freed slave families. Over time the town remained very isolated from the rest of the state and [...]
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I’ve been sharing some of my past and current quilting adventures with you lately (here and here). When I was 20 years old I was ready to take on a more challenging quilt element: TRIANGLES. Every quilt I had done before had some room for me to “cheat” the squares if necessary. Triangles don’t give [...]
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My friend who’s in the know (she works at Houghton Mifflin) just posted a link to the most amazing book covers I’ve ever seen in MY LIFE. EMBROIDERED! Love, love, love. And there’s more! You’ll have to check out Jilion Tamaki Sketchblog to see the other amazing covers. I’m in love with this for so [...]
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If you haven’t been following you can catch up with my old lists here, here, here, here, and here. It’s no longer really “A List Every Day for 30 Days” but “30 Days Worth of Lists”. I could make life easy on myself just write everything out in a list… that is in fact the [...]
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I mentioned before that I had a quilt that I haven’t worked on in YEARS. My best friend got engaged August of 2006. The next day I start sketching out plans for a double wedding ring quilt (a bit of an ambitious undertaking). January 0f 2007 I began cutting the pieces, thinking to myself “You’re [...]
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