Photographing Glass, Flora, Rocks And Wood

Photographing Glass, Flora, Rocks And Wood

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Snapshot/Coffee Talk Saturday. I should have been sewing last evening as the blanket stitch on the Santa Sacs is not going to get done by itself. Instead I was playing with photos in photoshop and having so much fun. A few of these I...
Free Motion Stars Amongst Meandering

Free Motion Stars Amongst Meandering

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Free Motion Friday. Tonight the skies are clear so the stars should be out. Too bad some northern lights wouldn’t dance across the sky in all their splendid glory for everyone to see. I would be in heaven if they did. One of my...
My Favourite Pin Cushions

My Favourite Pin Cushions

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. Over the years I have collected a few different pin cushions but always seem to go back to the one I bought years ago in Yellowknife. It has sat by machine, on my sewing table through all kinds of projects and quilting...
Felted Roving And Blue Jeans

Felted Roving And Blue Jeans

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday. Okay, so the felting doesn’t use up much stash but I am happy to report that I will be using 28 metres of fabric in the next week making Santa Sacs and jumbo stockings. Plus another 5 and a ½ in a baby...
Corner Triangles As Hanging Tabs

Corner Triangles As Hanging Tabs

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. Another method of hanging a small quilt or adding in a dowel along the bottom of a larger quilt to help it hang straighter and flat to the wall is by adding triangles to each corner on the back of the quilt. This method...
Three Little Snowmen – A Quilted Wall Hanging

Three Little Snowmen – A Quilted Wall Hanging

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Story Time Monday. I do love snowmen and have made a few snowmen quilts in the past. Not to mention all my snow people designs on my Santa Sacs. With the snow we have had the last couple of days it does get one thinking of snowmen....
Stitch Along Sunday – November Week 4

Stitch Along Sunday – November Week 4

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday. If you missed Stitch Along Sunday – November Week 3 I had sewed together all the blocks I had added borders to on Week 2. Okay so I didn’t quite get all of my blocks sewn together – the Christmas...
Relief Printing With Lino Blocks – Part 2

Relief Printing With Lino Blocks – Part 2

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Coffee Talk Saturday. Today I am going to show you what we made after lunch in the print making class at the Orillia Museum. Last week I only showed you our relief printing masterpieces using lino blocks and water soluble ink from the...
What Is Quilt As You Go?

What Is Quilt As You Go?

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday on Thursday this week. Quilt as you go is a very popular method of quilting and implies just that quilt as you go. The quilting is done with the piecing through all three layers of the quilt. When the piecing is done the...