Halloween Hooters Applique
Ok, so this is a bit late. And I could hold on to it until next year but…nah. While I was in Colorado Springs visiting the grands last August, I came across the CUTEST...
Power Tools with Thread | Quilting & machine Embroidery
Brother Scan-N-Cut 650W and Allbrands.com
As mentioned in a previous post, several years ago I purchased a Cameo Silhouette (or Silhouette Cameo…I can never get that right) from Woot.com and had no idea what to do with it. It...
McCall’s 6844
In keeping with my “Creative Fraud” persona, Sarah Gunn from GoodbyeValentino.com made an amazing sweater with some yummy oatmeal boucle’ and I HAD to have it. Isn’t this precious? Sorry for the screenshot stuff...
Scrappy Travel Neck Pillow
I let my perfectionism go and just dove into my scrap bag to make a neck pillow for travel. I’ll admit, I didn’t create this pattern…it was a freebie hand-drawn pattern I received on...
2017 San Antonio Quilt Expo & a New Quilting Ruler Stand
The San Antonio Quilt Expo was put on by the Greater SA Quilt Guild on Sep 22-23, 2017 and I’d never been to one so I donned my favorite sewing themed tee and headed...
1st Pantograph on the Longarm, a.k.a. Two New Dog Blankets
A couple of months ago, my local quilt shop was having a season clearance and they had an entire bolt of “cheater cloth” up for grabs. Not only was it on clearance, I talked...
Efficient Quilt Piecing Techniques
I’m just beginning a Christmas gift quilt so I can’t show you the finished image yet, but this one has a ton of repetitive piecing. A TON! You know the type: Cut 28 each...
Hurricane Harvey
We got word of Harvey forming in the Gulf of Mexico early last week and began to think about what it might mean for our house in Port O’Connor, Texas. It was just a...
Applique, Stitch Artist, and Silhouette Cameo 3
I’m recently all about a new technology/skill/craft that is creating pre-cut fabric applique pieces with a cutting machine and adding them to a quilt block with an embroidery machine. I’m not sure what that...
#2017FALQ3-PowerToolsWithThread
I have a lot of UFOs (Unfinished Objects) and I’m very happy I found the 2017 Finish-a-long even if the year is half over. It will give me the motivation to finish a few...
