Mary Wigham: Part 10

Happy Monday, Everyone!  I hope you had a good weekend. I SPLURGED!!!  I have a few quilt-related things to do, but after coming through two rather gruesome deadlines….. I just needed to chill.  So, I splurged!!  I read, I did some needlework, I piddled, I dropped off some quilts at the local county fair, and [...]

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Machine Embroidery: Soft Pink

This is a sneak peek of an heirloom pillow project I worked on for Creative Machine Embroidery.  The soft pink look conveys such a sweet sense of childhood innocence: Here are some close-ups.  You would probably be surprised, but this was done on a piece of sheer Victorian batiste, on top of a cotton print [...]

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Logged: 10.5 hours

I had wanted to work on my Mary Wigham over the weekend. But I remembered I have my “Spanning three centuries” quilt languishing somewhere in my stash. I certainly didn’t mean for it to wait three centuries to be completed. So, I hunkered down and worked on it for a few hours. Here is what [...]

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Apple Quilt Update

In a few weeks, our local Apple Festival will be in full swing — just in time for the release of my quilt in the current October 2009) issue of “Quilter’s World”! I have not received a copy of the actual magazine yet, but the picture shown on Quilter’s World’s website is making me anxious [...]

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Precious Baby Steps

The baby birth quilt was shipped out last week to the editor. If all things go well, it should appear in the April 2010 issue of “Quilter’s World”. Here are a couple of sneak peeks: It was not easy stamping a 7-month old’s footprints on the quilt top. At first, the baby was really curious. [...]

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