Category: Quilting


Jun
2017

One Monthly Goal for June

categories: Modern Making, Quilting, Sewing

I’m participating in Elm Street Quilts  OMG (One Monthly Goal).  My goal for May was to get 1/2 the blocks of this Legendary quilt by Elizabeth Hartman made, but I didn’t quite make the goal.  I did get 1/3 of them made.  I like to work on multiple projects, and am involved in a weekly sew along so I’ll only set a goal of 5 more tree blocks for the month of June.  I love signing up for the goal because it motivates me to accomplish forward progress!  I’m such a procrastinator, and that’s why I have so many UFO’s.  Hopefully as the year progresses, the list will get smaller.


Aug
2016

#QUILTSFORPEACE

categories: Quilting

When tragedy struck the city of Dallas, the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild sent out a request for heart blocks and quilts similar to the ones being made for the Pulse victims in Orlando, Florida.  At first, I was just going to make a few blocks, but then I began cutting out the blue heart blocks with the pattern created by Allison of Cluck Cluck Sew.  It was sew easy, I kept going.  With the help of my quilty friend, Anna Addington, we made 42 heart blocks for a 60 x 70 quilt.  I pieced them together, quilted them, and added binding and a label.  So this is our #quiltsforpeace quilt to be given to the police officers families.  For the first time, I got out my machine embroidery manual and workbook and made a quilt label using the embroidery hoop.  Why I haven’t been doing this all these years, I’ll never know.  It turned out great!

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