My excellent polyester adventure

I recently finished a customer quilt repair.  A gentleman contacted me about repairing a quilt belonging to his fiancée.  The quilt contained pieces of her grandmother’s clothing.  Her grandmother died when this woman was a very young girl, so these scraps of her clothing are very sentimental to her.

This quilt had been well-loved.  In [...]

Spring Succeeds

Yes, we have a title.  Spring Succeeds is a song by Olivia Tremor Control, and yes, it’s on our ipod.  I have to admit it’s not a familiar song to me, but I love the title and it’s very fitting for this quilt.  Thanks, Josh.  What a long winter and a slow start to spring [...]

It was a good weekend

Welp, the weekend was good… no, great.  Mom took the kids on Friday afternoon.  Need I say more?

Friday we had a friend over for dinner; he and Josh stayed home and hung out while my friend Barb and I went out for coffee and talked.  It was fun a lot of fun.

Saturday we [...]

It's finally quilted!

Sorry for the late posting, everyone.  I hope I didn’t worry anyone (besides Mom).  I had a rare opportunity this morning to quilt.  So instead of writing about it, I got busy!

This is what happened when I tried to photograph the quilt while the kids were still awake.

Yeah, it [...]

Superior Threads

I love using Superior Threads.  Here are a few of their products that I love: The Bottom Line, MasterPiece and King Tut.

The Bottom Line thread is a 60 weight polyester thread that is very fine and lint-free.  When quilting, I almost always use The Bottom Line thread in my bobbin.  I buy a huge [...]

Quilt update

Here’s a picture of the quilting I have done so far on this yet unnamed quilt.  I decided to quilt some freehand curlicues in the background of the appliqué blocks, it seemed fitting to the whimsical style of the quilt.  I will probably go back and quilt in the actual appliqué shapes, too.

I think [...]