Christmas swap top completed!

I finally made a decision about the borders after much deliberation and several inputs – thanks everyone! I opted for a narrow inner border in cream, with the green holly fabric as a larger outer border. I’m pleased with how it turned out. I’ll probably bind it in either cream or red [...]

Miniature Booty Swap Quiltlet

I got my quiltlet done tonight for the Miniature Booty Swap. I’m running a bit behind (today was the mail date), but it’ll go out tomorrow so it should be A-OK. This swap was a kitchen quilt swap – and in addition to the quiltlet, we had to come up with a dishtowel [...]

Which border?

I got the center done for these Christmas Louisiana Star swap blocks that have been sitting in a pile for over a year, yay! I used a blue border to tie in the block in the center that has blue in the fabric, and I quite like the contrast with the reds and greens. [...]

ALQS replacement

I recieved an adorable little quiltlet from Kate today. She hostesses the ALQS miniature quilt swaps. My first time to participate resulted in the mail losing the quilt sent to me, but Kate was generous enough to make me a replacement one. I love it! It’s bright and cheerful, and in [...]

Miniature Booty Swap

Made this for the Miniature Booty Swap, holiday edition…wonder who it’s for? I’m going to assume that most of the participants don’t check every participating blog to try and guess which quiltlet is theirs, and I’m also relatively anonymous. I haven’t done this swap before, but I was asked to [...]

Paper-Piecing

I’m working on a miniature quilt for the holiday Miniature Booty Swap. The pattern I chose is a 12-inch paper-pieced block that I blew up to 18 inches. I’ve only got three sections left to piece (one of which has about 20 pieces), but then it’ll be done.
I’m always torn about PPing. [...]

Round Robin, first border

You might remember the bug fabric block I made for another round robin. I decided that I would keep up with the progress of my block, as I have that group on my Google Reader, so I’d see it anyways. I LOVE the first border that Carrie put on my block! She [...]

Pirate Flag mini quilt

Yay, I can post this now! Toni was my partner in the ALQS round two swap. What are the chances? I know literally it was like 1 in 66, but c’mon – the ONLY person I actually KNOW, online OR in real life, was my partner? Anyways…
I figured that [...]

Mini quilt

Yay, I can post this! Karen receieved her quilt today. I had forgotten to take a picture, so I’m “borrowing” hers.

DOH!

I just mailed off a little mini quilt today, but I didn’t take a picture of it. *face smack* I was a “quilt angel,” which means I made a quilt for someone whose partner fell through with her obligation. I wasn’t part of this swap, but Toni was hosting it and posted a [...]

Miniature quilt swaps

I’ve spent a fair amount of time today trying to figure out what I want to do for a few miniature quilt swaps I’m in. For one of them, I know what I want to do for her little quilt, but I’ve got to figure out how I’m going to do it. The [...]

LJ Round Robin

I forgot to post pictures of the border I made! I got this done on Friday. The girl that made this one didn’t put much of the same fabrics in with her block (less than a FQ of each), so I improvised with some from my stash and some from what she sent. [...]

Productive Sunday!

1. Make and mail September birthday blocks.
2. Make border for LJ Round Robin and mail to the next person in line.
4. Decide on quilt design for ALQS swap (mail due date: November 10).
A goal that wasn’t on here (DOH) was to finish my blocks for a signature swap – DONE!
The Guild meeting is tomorrow, so [...]

September Quilting Goals

I need to start doing monthly quilting goals, or I might not get everything done that I need to! Here they are for September:
1. Make and mail September birthday blocks.
2. Make border for LJ Round Robin and mail to the next person in line.
3. Make border for Quilt Squad center and [...]

Whee!

Three noteworthy things from the weekend:
I got Jöran back! He’s all spiffed up and ready to go now. *cheers* I haven’t had a chance to see how he’s running, but I will tomorrow. I’m glad to have him back. While I love Jenny, my seams are waaaaay more accurate [...]

Round Robin quilts

I’m in the process of two Round Robin quilt swaps. One is with the Quilt Squad group, and is nearing completion. The other is just starting on LiveJournal (where I keep my “life” blog).
This is the center I made for the QS group. I still need to embroider the last [...]

The time has come…

…that is, taking Jöran (my Viking Sapphire sewing machine) in to be serviced this weekend. They said it could take up to two weeks, and is contingent upon not needing new parts (it shouldn’t, it’s less than a year old!), and it’s on a first-come, first-serve basis. I won’t need it over [...]