Monthly Archives: December 2023

Classes, First Quarter 2024

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Here’s what I’ll be teaching at Studio Stitch in the first quarter of 2024.

Strip Swirl, January 18 & 25.

I made this quilt from scraps (of course!) but it could be made from a jelly roll for a more coordinated look.

Make Your Own Tilda Quilt, January 23 and 30.

Tilda fabrics are just beautiful! But they’re almost all mid values, which makes them challenging to use in a quilt. I designed this block and then made the entire quilt top a replica of the block! Learn how I did it and either use my design or make your own design in class.

Love Pillow, February 2

This is a chance to use your zipper foot, walking foot, and zigzag foot if you’d care to! And you get a cute pillow in time for Valentine’s Day.

A Little Orange, February 10

Yes, it’s being held out a window by hand, so the picture isn’t as nice as the ones taken by the magazine folks!

This is the quilt I had published in Quick + Easy Quilts recently, though their quilt was in holiday colors. This is the orange one I made to test the pattern before submitting it. It’s easy and would make a great second quilt for a relative beginner.

NOT Paper Pieced, March 5.

This is a quick and fun quilt that I made to use up a group of coordinating fat quarters.

Help! (UFO Rescue), March 15 and/or 16

This is my quarterly class for customers to bring anything unfinished and I’ll try to help. Some people sign up just to get some dedicated sewing time away from household chores!

And that’s it for the first quarter! Best wishes to you for the coming year!

 

Enjoy Your Holiday

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These little angels were purchased by my Mother just after WWII, when she married my Father and “set up housekeeping”. I have gotten rid of most of the holiday dreck, but I love these so they are on the dining table.

Here are a few projects I’ve been working on.

I took a class and made a bowl

I made some little pods for friends. Pattern is Sweetpea Pods, available here

I love Libs Elliott’s quilts, so I’m working on La Fin du Monde. So far it seems to be a hot mess. Pattern available here.

To paraphrase Kinky Friedman, may the holiday of your choice bring you blessings. Happy holiday, whatever it may be!

Retreat!

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Jerri’s Retreat Group has been going for many years now, and recently we met at my house. Here are a few of the projects other group members were working on. What’s not shown are the multiple trips to quilt shops in the area 😉

Here are some of the projects made by group members.

This quilt, made from a pattern by Elizabeth Hartman, will go to a camp for seriously ill children

This quilt was made to use up Kaffe scraps. I don’t know whether there was a pattern.

This block will be part of the Rock Star Granny quilt, pattern by Crystal Manning

I don’t know the pattern for this one.

This quilt to be given to a veteran was made with the Ray pattern, free on the Robert Kaufman website

This block is the start of the Simplify pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew

This is the start of the BQ2 pattern, using fabrics from the Desert Oasis collection from Moda

I am so lucky to have generous and inspiring friends to quilt with!

 

Changing the Artwork

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I’ve been in my “new” studio a couple of years now, so I decided to change out the art quilts I have on the walls. Some of the newly-hung items are from years ago, but I found them in the closet, so here they are.

I had forgotten about this little leaf-pounding piece that I quilted by hand.

I made Atomic Sunflower only two years ago, but I’d forgotten about it, too.

I did make this one self-portrait quilt in a class years ago, but that’s it for people in my quilts.

I designed and made this little neighborhood after seeing similar projects online. Isn’t the internet a great source of inspiration?

I made this many years ago from a pattern designed with tiny pieces. I don’t think that designer is still publishing patterns.

I made this when I was first experimenting with stripes and curves. I still love the colors.

These little wall hangings were made just for fun. That’s a money tree at the bottom of one of them 😀

There isn’t room for all the small quilts to be up at one time, so I probably need to change things up more than every couple of years!

Dreamlines: A Year-Long Project Finished

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I learned of Brenda Gael Smith’s Dreamlines project from a fellow blogger and signed up early in 2023.  It’s a free monthly art project that has had international participation, and I’ve enjoyed it. Here are my pieces from all the months sitting on the design wall so I could think about what to do with them.

I accidentally made one month’s project in the larger size, but I figured that would be OK.

The plan for November was to finish the piece, and here’s mine.

I left out some of the pieces I’d done, cut one of the big pieces in half, and added some solid strips. I quilted it with horizontal lines in threads to match the various pieces.

You can go to the Dreamlines Gallery on Brenda’s site and look at the variety of finished pieces from around the world. It’s really fun to see the variety of compositions and all the different places where people participated.

I’ll be watching to see if Brenda offers a project for next year, because I enjoyed this one. She also offers some online classes and a friend who took them says they are good.