DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

High on the (very) short list of things to love about living here: spending the weekend quilting (and eating and sleeping) in an 850-year-old monastery. The Kloster Schöntal, to be exact. The condensed version: good food, good company, good quilting, happy weekend. The uncut version: Kloster Schöntal is about one hour from my house, the [...]

Really, that seems like the only place I’ve been quilting, for the last week or so, except for Saturday night! I’ve been working a lot on web pages for clients, with no time for fun. But, in the relatively small bit of quilting time that I did have on Saturday, I packed in some true [...]

One day, I’m in love with it, and a few days later, we’re still making friends! Well, I am still in love with my new Bernina, but I’m also still trying to be friends with it for machine quilting. The embroidery part is absolutely awesome, and I like it much better than the Pfaff, so [...]

It’s National Quilting Day on Saturday, March 17th! What will you do to celebrate? Here’s a few ideas: Visit the National Quilting Association website to find out more about National Quilting Day. Visit the Virginia Consortium of Quilters for a list of Games for National Quilting Day (these would be great for a quilt retreat [...]

A couple of years ago, sometime before I damaged the tendon sheaths in my hand and wrist, I started a quilt with a Feathered Star in the middle, and I planned to border it with a Jinny Beyer border print. I was kind of hoping to enter the quilt into a show that year. I [...]

I spent part of the morning yesterday trying to figure out what to do with the sashing on the UFO Dresden Plate quilt, with no success. I finally started thinking about other projects that I need to do shortly here, and reluctantly put the big quilt aside for a bit. This is why UFO’s are [...]

Here’s where I am with the quilting on the UFO Dresden Plate quilt (click for a bigger pic!): I’m almost done with the feather quilting around the plates, and I’m ready to start on either the sashing or the stippling between the plates and the feathers. In the planning stages, I thought I’d quilt a [...]