Think about you, quilting. Pair that image with your wildest, most wouldn’t-it-be-amazing dream. What does your marvel of a quilting experience look like? For astronaut Karen Nyberg, her quilting adventure was a literal out-of-this world event: making a quilt block in orbit, on the International Space Station. Wow! Inspiration doesn’t come on a scale much …
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I’ve just spent the past two hours trying to set up some kind of graduated layout using the 2″ squares I cut from the jellyroll I bought from Whims. Not an easy task I discovered –…
Make Yours as Vivid or Subdued as You Like! We first saw this quilt a few months ago and shared it on our Facebook page. Not surprisingly, it was a big favorite, with many asking for the pattern. We’ve been looking off and on ever since for the pattern and had given up on it …
Yesterday I was able to get caught up on the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. These are the first blocks for the quilt I'm calling "Cats of a Different Color". The original pattern was called "Cats in the Attic" and it was created by the late Pam Bono. Here's what her original quilt looked like: My plan for this quilt is to make three of each of the four cats, but I'm not making the "attic window" style block. I'm just floating my cats. The blocks finish up at 12 inches (12-1/2 unfinished). I have an idea of how to set it with paw print cornerstones that I'm going with for now. February's color was pink: January's color was blue: That background fabric is "Artisan Batiks Kalahari". I found it in my stash, and it seemed a good choice for a cat quilt. I only have two yards, and I'm afraid I'll come up a skosh short. I looked online and was able to find a "last chance" supply at Fabric.com and so I ordered two more yards. Tomorrow, I'll be linking up to: and that will bring me up-to-date with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Today I need to spend the morning doing some housework, and then I'm going to get to work on the Quiltmaker's Garden quilt that has been so woefully neglected over the past year. My goal for the month is to complete the three 16-patch blocks at the top of the gazebo and the pinwheel flowers along the top of the vine. My hope is that I can finish them today, and that might be overly optimistic. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? Our weather is wet and nasty, and we're expecting the rain to continue into next week. Nice, huh? The temperatures are warm enough, but what's the use of warm temperatures when it's raining cats and dogs? All I can say is that it's excellent sewing weather, and I just happen to have some sewing to keep me busy. Speaking of cats, he's keeping one eye on the mousies at all times.
