The Quilt Show Blog

Hi Everyone,

As good as my intentions are, I still am not blogging as much as I hoped. Today I got a message from a friend, letting me know that a quilt I made for my grandson is featured on The Quilt Show Daily Blog. I used a laser cut fusible phoenix motif and fused it to a radiating fabric panel. It was fairly straightforward, but the real fun was in the quilting. I added borders to make it rectangular for a lap quilt and then loaded it onto my HandiQuilter. I had tons of fun quilting radiating lines and border motifs. The best part was using a zigzag motion all over the feather areas to create texture there. You can see a close-up of that work here.

I have spent some timesince the new year cleaning closets, lightening my load and re-organizing stuff. Next post will be to show the knitting needle roll I made one afternoon to capture all my needles and knitting supplies in one place. It took me only 2 hours to complete and that included the design process. How nice to have everything at my fingertips now instead of searching in drawers and boxes to find just the right size needles to begin my next project.

Here is a photo of the basket weave knit scarf I made last week.

I learned these skills from my Mom and beloved Nana beginning at about age 7. Since they owned a yarn shop once upon a time, I inherited lots of tools and notions. It's nice to finally have them in one place, instead of having to search drawers and boxes for just the right size needles.

I'll be back tomorrow to post photos of the needle roll. Happy Friday!