Crosses of the UK blocks. The Long Time Gone quilt is a design by Jen Kingwell. In March 2017 I joined the Long Time Gone QAL hosted by Angie (Gnomeangel) and I showed the blocks I made on this blog for the first time. After a few months it became one of my many WIP's,…

I'm playing catchup on my blog, I finished Long Time Gone in November but am just now getting around to blogging about it.  Mainly because...

It was so exciting to see this quilt come together today:)!   It was sewn together in six sections.  And it's a good thing because the blocks are all different sizes.  It was kind of like sewing a puzzle together in sections! Section 1- Section 2- Section 3- Section 4- Section 5- Section 6- Isn't…

At Spring Market in St. Louis a couple weeks ago, I talked to Jen Kingwell in her booth and told her I was working on Long Time Gone, one of...

This canvaswork embroidery design is based on the Long Time Gone quilt by Jen Kingwell. It is a great piece for learning about the endless design possibilities available in working this counted form of embroidery.

'Gelato' - Jen Kingwell's Long Time Gone quilt made with batik fabrics.

I have been looking at and drooling over Jen Kingwell's designs and patterns for a while now.  Her wild colors and adventurous techniques just tickle my fancy.   So when she announced that she came out with a new pattern called Delilah and that it would be a template block of the month, I signed…

So my original goal was to work on my Long Time Gone project a little bit at a time.  Maybe a block a week, a section a month, something...

What a delightful surprise I had a few weeks back when Linda was up from Christchurch (in the South Island NZ) to visit family, Linda want...

Long Time Gone is a wrap. A six month, once a month class, we wrapped up . They did the sewing at home, I demoed the various blocks each mon...

Last night I finished Rosamond's Long Time Gone quilt, pattern is a BOM by Jen Kingwell Designs .  And, no, I'm not that fast -- this was ac...

Posts about ”Long Time Gone” written by louisaenright

Building Confident Patchworkers

For me one of the best things about starting a new project is the fabric selection. I’m old school when...

Good Monday morning!  I am back from a few days at the cabin for a family reunion.  It was so nice to spend time with family in the cooler weather of Northern Arizona:) Now that I am back, I have had time to finish the checkerboard blocks for my Long Time Gone Quilt. They were…

Oh what fun it is to sew on my quilt, oh yes it is, yea!   A little Christmas in June never hurts, right?  I hum and sing a lot while I sew. Do you?  I don't think my blocks could possibly turn out this cute with out a happy song or two:) This week's…

One of the deals I made with myself when deciding to participate in the Long Time Gone FAL using Jen Kingwell's pattern was to use fabric t...

A scrappy quilt designed by Jen Kingwell. Made as a sample for a six month class.

Texan cowboy

June 21st marks 60 years since the last Chicago streetcar ran. If you consider that 80 years is, perhaps, about an average lifespan, that means 3/4ths of such a time has now passed since that historic event. The number of people still living who rode Chicago streetcars is dwindling, and is certainly only a small…