The Dallas Modern Quilt Guild hosted a cool challenge this past month. They decided to have a raffle of sets of quilt blocks made my the members with a certain color scheme and improv piecing style. Each block you made counted as an entry for a set of blocks. So, the more you made, theContinueContinue reading “DMQG Raffle Blocks”
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My First Sew In
There is Dallas Modern Quilter\’s Guild here in town that I\’ve been wanting to join for the past year. The meetings were on Thursdays and I couldn\’t go due to my work schedule. I have moved some things around to be able to get off for the meetings so now I can be a partContinueContinue reading “My First Sew In”
Mike\’s Quilt
So when I started dating Mike, a year ago this month, he asked for a quilt. I told him that if we made it 6 months that I\’d make him one. We made it six months, so I asked him to start thinking of what kind of quilt he would like. He found 3 heContinueContinue reading “Mike\’s Quilt”
Modern She Made
So I joined this swap group to challenge myself and make something of my own design. My parter had a cool mosaic and I was excited to start my first true start to finish design process. I started with sketches on scrap paper at work.I then moved the design into this really cool app calledContinueContinue reading “Modern She Made”
Wednesday Afternoon
So this is what I have in progress this week. 1. First Swoon block fully completed. Trying to decide if I like it enough to keep going. Initially I was going to make a queen sized quilt for my bedroom with this color scheme. Not sure if I\’m still emotionally bought into it. 2. MorkContinueContinue reading “Wednesday Afternoon”
W.I.P. Wednesday 3/28/12
So I have cleaned up most of my UFOs and am ready to start some new projects! The first one is a Sparkle Punch Baby Quilt, made in Ruby, for my college coach\’s baby, expected this summer. I have been wanting to make this quilt since I saw the Quilt Along several months ago andContinueContinue reading “W.I.P. Wednesday 3/28/12”
Swoonin\’ Tuesday
So this weekend I picked out the fabrics I wanted to use for my Swoon. The plan is to use it as my bedroom quilt and the colors are brown beige and robins egg blue. These are the fabrics I chose:This is the first trial with the fabrics. I think I want to pull someoneContinueContinue reading “Swoonin\’ Tuesday”
Monday Chain Link Monotony
I\’ve been working on a quilt from Link From the 30\’s for a couple of weeks now. It caught my eye because even though it\’s a 1930\’s design, it looks very modern. I have been chain piecing the heck out of this thing. I HATE CHAIN PIECING. It saves so much time and thread butContinueContinue reading “Monday Chain Link Monotony”
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