I taught this class at my LQS yesterday. I can see lots of uses for these bags – the little ones for jewelry or the tooth fairy. The big ones can hold quilts or wet swimsuits. It’s a great stash buster – hey, I bet you have some orphan blocks you could use, too. Supplies:…
Halloween Quilt Pattern Tutorial: I used to teach at a quilt retreat held at the Bayside Inn in Cooperstown NY. I wouldn’t stay at the Inn, I would stay in a camping trailer we had at the time at Shadowbrook Campground. One year I offered two different classes – a log cabin and a bargello….
Oswego’s Harborfest commemorates the “Battle of Fort Oswego”, which was fought on land and by tall ships in the Harbor of Oswego, NY, during the War of 1812. The festival is normally held the last weekend in July. This 18″ block honors the Tall Ships that took part in that event. To make the block,…
Have you ever needed to make a lot of identical Half Square Triangle Blocks (HSTs) for a quilt or other quilting project? It can be daunting, but not if you use Magic! Here is a way to make 8 at a time, quickly and easily. [A quick note from Kris: I ended up making a…
A Stack N Slash quilt is the easiest way ever to make a quilt of many colors. Gather a coordinated set of fat quarters, or just use scraps. Stack, Slash, Shuffle, and Stitch! It’s fun and easy. It gives a great improvisational look without cutting lots of individual strips, wasting fabric, fussy cutting, or sewing…
Wednesday Whimsey An Irishman, by the name of O’Malley proposed to his girl on St. Patrick’s Day. He gave her a ring with a synthetic diamond. The excited young lass showed it to her father, a jeweler. He took one look at it and saw it wasn’t real. The young lass on learning it wasn’t…
Here’s a blog post from my old blog, dated August 26, 2003. I have been asked to tell about the places we go in the bus. We DO have an awful lot of fun, and meet an incredible assortment of very nice people, but it does get tiring traveling all the time. Still, the good…
Quilting has an acronym language all its own. If we have a WHIMM or a NESTY, and don’t have a QB, we go on a FART in order to create SEX and SABLE or maybe to send a Squishy. We gather TUS and cut fabric on the WOF or SOG so we can use BOB,…
Do you have extra quilt batting pieces? My friend Chris Thresh has a tip for you: She made a giant “Q-tip” for dusting out of leftover quilt batting. It works like a charm. See pictures of it here: http://winnowings.blogspot.com/2008/07/busting-dust.html On a personal note, Punxsutawney Phil had better not see his shadow on Monday. I am very…
Hello, and thanks for visiting! I am delighted to see you all here. We have a lot of new members this month so I will tell you a little bit about me. I travel with the Quiltbus, a shuttle bus we converted into a mobile quilt shop. This month we are taking our mobile shop…
Afternoon, ladies. Most of you know why you’re here. You know what secret longings draw you, week after week, to this bright and tastefully appointed place, far from the prying eyes of a society that will not allow us to sew free. Many of you are hardcore veterans of the quilting society, old-school regulars of…
We are just back from a QuiltBus trip. I really enjoy meeting all the different people. The quilters in Winchendon put up a fun sign for us so we wouldn’t miss the church we were going to, but we missed it anyway. When we turned around to go back, all these ladies were jumping up…
