Snowflakes in June

It is hot outside but snowflakes are carpeting my front lawn! English Paper Pieced snowflakes that is!


Just finished this quilt top and thought I would share.  Sorry about the shadow in the shot - didn't catch that on the camera.









I think I started this in late April so it went together very quickly.  It is going to be for me to use during the holidays.  yay!

I still have to give it a good press, pull out some papers, and stay-stitch the edge.

In my quilting studio, my personal pile of quilts is almost getting as large as the customer pile!  I had better start squeezing them into the schedule.

 I wish my big shasta daisies were more in bloom for a better backdrop.  I will share this one again once I get it quilted.  Hopefully that happens before December!  Thanks for stopping by!!

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English Paper Piecing

So sorry for not posting anything in nearly a week.  My to-do list just got so long, I just couldn't get to everything.  But I do have some fun projects to show you today!

Usually after standing at my longarm quilting machine all day, I rarely go into my sewing room and piece quilt tops.  In the evening, you usually find me on the couch with some hand sewing.  When I don't have bindings to sew, I am usually english paper piecing (EPP).  I thought I would share.....

My first EPP projects were usually pretty simple.  I would use the "flowers" as embellishments on various projects. 

Here is a fun potholder I made as a gift and I loved it so much I kept it for myself....







I then started creating "fabric" using EPP and making some larger items. 

This is one of the pillows I made for in my livingroom using the larger 2" hexagons.  I have plans to make many more.

One day I got the crazy idea to make a queen size quilt using a bunch of my jewel toned scraps and tiny one inch hexagons.   You can see the quarter sitting there to show you how crazy that idea truly was.

Needless to say after a couple years, I am close to having it built to about a lap size quilt.  This is definitely one of those "one in a lifetime" projects!

And lately, because the tiny hexagons were getting to me, I have been putting together one of the snowflake projects using the larger 2" hexagons.  Each of the snowflakes end up being about 18" tip to tip so it goes together fairly quickly.

I am hoping to have it finished by the holidays!  We shall see...

The weather here in the northwest has been lovely lately and spring has certainly arrived.  I am looking forward to when it is warm enough to sit in my gardens in the evening and work on hand sewing there.

I hope you are all starting to see signs of spring!  Thanks for stopping by.

Sent with Santa

Now that my gifts have been delivered by Santa, I can show a few items that I did finish just before christmas.  My sister Tracy wanted a couple of table runners for her home so I did finish this holiday one in time to get to her.  The rest of them will have to wait a bit as I try and finish up some projects around here before I start something new.

And I made my neighbor whose kitchen is decorated in apples these simple potholders and cloth napkins.  Her dishes are a brown and green stoneware so these worked perfectly!

And my friend Penny gave me the perfect tin sign!  It captures my quilting philosophy wonderfully!

Hope you had a wonderful holiday and are enjoying leftovers, new toys and finding time to get back into your sewing rooms and play with fabric!