What is on my DESIGN WALL this week?

| May 30, 2011

This week I am ready to sew all of my 120 log cabin blocks together…..they are made from 1 1/2″ strips for the dark side of the blocks…..and 1″ strips for the light.  YES YOU READ RIGHT – I SAID THE LIGHT STRIPS ARE 1″ WIDE!  This makes it look curvy. YES 120 of these […]

QUILTY, FOOD and FAMILY STUFF

| October 8, 2010

I have been having fun working on my SECOND Bonnie Hunter Carolina Crossroads Quilt – but I am not showing many pictures yet – I am waiting for the BIG EFFECT at the end.  I had all of the blocks made and then decided that I LIKED IT SO MUCH that I was going to […]

sao’s Quilty Stuff Accomplished at Quilt Camp

| March 15, 2010

I am happy to say that I came home from Quilt Camp this year  with THREE QUILTS FINISHED – I took them ready to be bound and I bound two of them!  HM…..I bound two and came home with THREE FINISHED…..read on…..     The first one is the MILKY WAY from Augusta Cole’s Cutting […]

sao QUILTY THINGS

| February 14, 2010

OK – so I have been THINKING about sewing on bindings…….I have the bindings sewn to the quilts – and now the hand work – MY FAVORITE THING TO DO.  I hid the STACK of quilts ready to bind in a chair in my closet……this is now my BINDING CHAIR……but OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF […]

Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild and AUGUSTA COLE at our February 2010 Meeting

| February 14, 2010

Saturday I actually drove in the snow – a beautiful light snowfall in Powhatan, VA.  I was BENT on making it to my Country Piecemaker’s Quilt Guild meeting in Powhatan.  I could not face missing one more thing because of the snow and I HAD TO MAKE THIS MEETING BECAUSE THE GREAT AUGUSTA COLE was […]