DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

My lovely little cat Shadow stole the spool holder from the top of my Bernina machine! Okay, so it’s not a critical part or anything, but still. Brand new machine, and now I’m missing a part already! The little creep!

Drumroll, please…I did get the center of the dang thing put together, as I’d hoped to, and here’s the pic to prove it (click for a bigger picture): The more astute among you will notice a distinct lack of curvy pieces anywhere. Yes, after all was said and done, the curvy pieces I had in [...]

Every time I try to work on this Feathered Lone Star quilt with the bird embroidery, I am forcibly reminded of Candy Goff’s Misery Quilt. You must go read that story. Don’t worry, I’ll be here when you get back. Now, my quilt started innocently enough, really, about three or four years ago. I wanted [...]

Remember the artist’s statement for Material Marquetry? Evidently, what I wrote was okay, since I had an email this morning that the quilt has been accepted for the In the American Tradition VI exhibit! I entered a quilt in this exhibit four or five years ago, and it wasn’t accepted, so I’m pretty excited that [...]

No, I haven’t started listening to old rock from Queen, I’ve just finished another UFO! Woohoo! I had a bad design moment with some fusible web a week or so ago while I was working on the Feathered Lone Star with the bird embroidery, and now I have to start the embroidery part all over [...]

So I’m packing up Material Marquetry for a trip through the mail tomorrow to the NQA Quilt Show, and I realize that the hanging sleeve has to be moved, at the last minute! Aaack! Off to sew I go…

I finally got around to moving my two tall shelves full of tone-on-tone fabrics today, with ITMan’s help. As I was loading the folded fabrics into laundry baskets to move it downstairs, I thought it might be interesting to weigh it, just for curiosity’s sake. So one laundry basket full weighed about 35 pounds, and [...]