Finished Flimsy: Bitcoin

I finished the “Bitcoin” quilt top!  Phew!  Sewing and pressing those last couple of seams was a relief.  I’m ready for something less chaotic, for the next project.   Sewing the long strips together with all those nesting seams was a bit slow going.  I’m not in a hurry to make this one again, but I […]

Bitcoins & Playing with Paint

Since last time, I’ve finished building the long strips/columns for the “Bitcoin” quilt.  Next was joining them along the vertical edges.  Such long, twisty pieces are not easy to lay out and arrange, so I decided to just let it be completely random.  I tried to mix earlier strips with later ones to get a […]

Cha-ching: More Bitcoins!

I don’t have much more to report since the last blog entry, except “more of the same”, but progress is being made.  I’ve carried on with making the “stacks of coins”, chipping away at the project, piece by piece. Here’s what the design wall looked like when I decided it was time to start joining […]

Stacking Up Those Coins…

I don’t have much progress to report, really—or at least no particularly interesting progress, since it’s just more of the same from last time.  However, I wanted an excuse to try out the new blog location, so this will have to do! I’ve continued work on the Bitcoin quilt, listening to an audiobook while I […]

WIP: Bitcoin Quilt

After finishing a few older WIP and UFO quilt tops, it felt like time to start something new.  I thought “Bitcoin”, designed by Bonnie Hunter, might be a good choice for something easy and fun.   “Bitcoin” also seemed like a good way to use up some of the fabric I have that’s too busy for […]