DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

Here’s the view from my sewing chair today: This quilt has been an interesting exercise in following the line, but not quilting on the line. Let me explain. See, I’m quilting right on the edge of all the appliqué pieces, so that means following the edge of the piece, but not quilting on the line [...]

If I were to do appliqué by hand (and I don’t think I’ll be doing much more of it, ever, but I’ve done my fair share), here are a few things I try to keep in mind to make the task easier: Good lighting! Yes, you’ve heard this from me before, but I just can’t [...]

Here’s the view from my sewing chair today: As you can see, this quilt is quite a walk on the wild side, for me anyway. As I said in a previous post, I used Glue-Baste-It to glue the appliqué pieces down, and then stitch basted some of the larger ones with water soluble thread before [...]

I’m finally finished preparing the appliqué pieces on the quilt, and I basted it today. I used to think basting was my least favorite part of quilting altogether, but now I’m convinced that it’s really appliqué and all it’s associated preparations and fussiness that ranks the bottom spot. Tomorrow I get to start quilting, yay! [...]

This week has been a much better one, thanks to some cooler weather and fewer taxi duties for the kids for me. I spent last weekend rebuilding my Personal Portals website to launch my web design services (yes, I do all my own web design and development, and I’ve decided to start hiring out freelance. [...]

This stuff is truly ingenious! And I’m sure I’m really behind here, but my only excuse for not discovering Glue-Baste-It sooner is that I usually go to great lengths to avoid hand-appliqué, so it didn’t exactly pop out at me at the store. Now that I’m “in it” with a quilt that has to be [...]

Here’s a pic of the little quilt I finished up this morning: I appliquéd the cat after the quilt was basted together with the batting and backing, just as an experiment. I basted the layers with water soluble thread, then appliquéd the prepared pieces onto the quilt through all three layers, free-motion quilting them at [...]