After 18 months of renting the house we currently live in, we have decided to jump back into home ownership, and are now under contract on a new home. I'm simultaneously thrilled and horrified. I have just under two months to pack up my life and move it three miles away. Five years ago my husband … Continue reading Distractions
I've gotten a little off track with this project since the first month. I've pieced all four main blocks, and three are attached to their backing and batting. Only two are complete, with the sashing corners tacked down. All should be finished today, as long as the puppy and laundry allow it. Block 5: Caroline … Continue reading Katja Marek – February blocks
This project has taken longer than I expected it would. Part of it is lack of motivation - my studio is still not 100% set up, so I avoid going in there. While I do love the look of the quilt, I've been a little disappointed with the quality of the pattern. It wasn't a … Continue reading Denim Stained Glass Quilt
I've decided to start a new handwork project in the new year. I have things to finish, but I've been flipping through my copy of "The New Hexagon" by Katja Marek since last Christmas. I've been lurking on Katja's Millefiori quilt along page, but I haven't started anything. That particular quilt doesn't call to me. … Continue reading Katja Marek's "Quilt with Me"
Or, The Never-Ending Christmas Quilt I saw this quilt when it aired on an Episode of Simply Quilts, which used to be on HGTV, way back when they had crafty content, not just home renovations. I was enthralled, but intimidated. This was right after I started quilting, so maybe 2000 or so. I was a serious machine … Continue reading Welcome to the North Pole!
I recently made a 3-d hexagon appliqué quilt, using Geta Grama's fantastic "My Secret Flower Garden" pattern. My husband, the lifelong Star Wars fan, constantly referred to it as a Death Star. It really annoyed me. Clearly, there are no hexagons on the Death Star, and the Death Star is not blue. I decided to … Continue reading That's No Moon…
In October of 2014 I discovered Geta Grama, a fantastic quilter from Romania. (Thank you, Al Gore, for inventing the internet so I can discover all these European quilters.) On her blog she has a quilt called "Together in a Friendship World". It is amazing. Hand pieced hexagons, but she has changed their dimensions, to … Continue reading My Blue Hexies
For the past two years I have been working on my version of Grit's wonderful La Passion. In November of 2013 I was trying to figure out how to finally finish off my grandmother's flower garden that had been sitting around for many years. I had picked it out of the UFO pile that spring, and started … Continue reading Hexagonquilt La Passion
