“Make It Pink! Make It Blue!”

Today I finished putting together the quilt top with the pink and blue-green/aqua strings and stitch-and-flip units.  It’s now folded and put away in the closet with the other quilt tops awaiting quilting…  At some point early in this project, I started thinking of it as “Make It Pink!  Make It Blue!”, which is a […]

2nd UFO Project of 2023

Continuing on from last time… With the rainbow strings UFO project set aside, I moved on to the next UFO.  This is another string-based project I started but never finished.  (Seeing a trend?  I get excited about string-piecing and crumb-piecing— strings especially when I want to use the treadle— but sometimes I don’t start with […]

New Year, Old UFOs!

I’ve been trying to finish up a couple of old UFO quilting projects, lately.  There are so many other new projects I’d like to start, but the backlog of UFOs was weighing on my conscience.  I’ll feel better with some of the old WIPs wrapped up and scratched of that mental list.   – – – […]

Welcoming the Juki into the Fold

There’s a new sewing machine in the house!  And this time it’s an actual new machine, not a “new” vintage machine.   I bought my “old” computerized sewing machine– a Brother Designio DZ2400– during a Black Friday sale in 2014.  It’s been a good machine, and it’s still going pretty strong.  So much so that I’m […]