Posts: 2016

In 2016, I blogged over 50 times!

• Values HST together – finally assembled the HST blocks from my Cheryl Arkison workshop
• Meandering along – meandering on a batik hour-glass mini
• Quilting a dragon – experimenting with freemotion quilting on my domestic
• Edyta Sitar’s Trail Mix class on Craftsy – auditioning fabrics to use to make scrappy strip-based stars

• Seeing fabric simply as colour – Finding that some unloved fabrics actually provide just the right colour for my strip sets
• At last – the diamond template – purchased the plastic template to make cutting diamond strip sets easier
• Japanese indigo blocks
• My improv block is in a quilt!  – the block I made in the Cheryl Arkison improv class makes it into a charity quilt for the Plowing Match
• With or without the sashing
• Using my smallest scraps
• Piecing along…
• An art class
• Contemplating pixels
• What — Bauhaus cancelled??
• Learning about my walking foot
• At last – the dog quilt
• Black border for dog quilt
• Brown batik scraps
• Threadworks
• Finally joined the Modern Guild
• CQA 2016
• Woot! All diamonds cut!
• Christmas table runner
• Maybe more IS more
• Working through those UFOs
• The perfect versus the good
• Progress
• Trying out long-arm quilting
• Rust-dyed fabric
• Ice-dyed fabric
• Car quilt – done!
• Whole lot of hand-dyed fabric!
• Mouse’s colourful runner
• Trimmed and bound
• A prize winner
• My new design wall
• Fish block – a block made for my modern guild’s 2017 QuiltCon charity quilt (with later edit to show the finished charity quilt)
• Sashiko panels in their frames
• Science project
• Autumn landscape
• Sunflower table runner
• On my design wall
• Felt wrench wand
• I-spy disappearing 9 patch
• Scrappy patio stones
• I-spy update
• Q’s Christmas stocking
• An unexpected Cthulu hat
• Updates all around
• Finished a quick hat
• My first long-armed quilt
• Charity quilts
• Pet pillows and other progress
• Strategy for tackling UFO’s
• Tackling UFO’s part 2
• Tackling UFO’s part 3
• Tackling UFO’s part 4