DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

At the Black Forest Quilters Guild meeting last Friday, I managed to squeeze in to the annual Fall Quilt Retreat scheduled for this coming weekend. I haven’t been on a quilt retreat with the guild for many years, though I remember the very first retreat well. Nine members, including myself, went to a tiny little [...]

I’ve been forgetting to mention that September is my UFO (Rebellion) Month. If you haven’t listened to the Driven To Quilt Podcast from September 4, you’re missing out on some great ideas that will free you from UFO associated guilt forever! My husband used to nag me (just a little) about my quilting UFO’s, but [...]

I’ve started designing a new quilt, and it’s entirely out of my “normal” range of styles. It’s really outside a number of my boxes, so it’s been kind of interesting figuring out how to do it. It’s appliqué, which I don’t do a lot of because it takes too long by hand (and my hands [...]

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 [...]

I looked at my UFO spreadsheet yesterday, and realized that I only have 25 unfinished projects listed. That’s so much better than when I started the list a few years ago. In other words, I am making progress, just a little slower than originally planned. But, seeing that there are only 25 on that list [...]

As some of you may be aware, about two and a half years ago my friend Liz Buchanan and I decided to list all of our UFO’s so that we actually knew what we had. We even put the list into an Excel spreadsheet, with columns for what needed to be done, what was completed, [...]

Well, it was time to take a break from “huge” and work with something more manageable. This little table runner has been around for about 10 years! Yes, unfinished. However, this may not be such a bad thing. You see, for 10 years, this has been sitting in my closet with the fabric that was [...]