Oh sweet heaven ~ this has been a fun design to play with! Light and Airy–Fresh ~ Easy-Breezey–just like these beautiful Montana summery days! The Sunny Side Up Pattern is an “AccuQuilt Friendly’ project with THREE different designs; the first is a large wallhanging or table topper at 30 x 39.” The second is a square topper or wall hanging …
snowflakes galore ~ a sweet snowflake inspiration most definitely! and so, here is the reverse appliqué method. simplicity, and effectively accomplished with my accuquilt snowflake die and gray and white fabrics: i carefully laid my solid piece of silver gray sparkly fabric on top of the die, being careful to fold a center line, which then was centered in the middle of …
oh goodness ~ and happy monday! today, a snowstorm is blowing’ ~ and yes, it’s cold outside~ and i so love being retired… and staying off the streets, content to be at home on a snowy, blowy, wintery, cooooollllish day doing what i love ~ designing, quilting, and enjoying the Christmas season! but i’m keeping nice and cozy! to help celebrate the …
hello ~boy have we enjoyed the relief of blessed rain these past few weeks, and it’s also been a great motive to dive into… yes… christmas! now i’m not anxious to bring on the season, but after seeing a few really charming christmas quilts hanging at the sewing palace in helena, i was inspired to start thinking about it ~and …
happy monday fellow fabric, quilter and sewing buddies!… and happy summer quilting days!this is a fun quilt i’ve been happily spending summer hours working on, writing instructions for a new pattern. based on that sweetly wonderful, classic ‘orange peel’ quilting shape. cut quickly and accurately through the accuquilt Go! system. i simply used an orange peel die shape, and a …
hi there ~i love simple piecing, with lots of punches of color and pattern! that’s… ah… like stating the obvious, i know. but what i love is using what i have… and loving what i use, too. it was pure delight to dig in, press, cut and piece these simple strips, cut in less than an hour on my accuquilt …
good morning all ~i am enjoying a burst of happy contrast using white on red, and of course prepping for christmas, and since i’m enjoying using my die cutters… {accuquilt go! and size big shot} it’s the perfect time to put them all together and make fun stuff: it’s been a madhouse of fusing and cutting! how fun it is to …
hello!it’s a simple formula. red christmassy print meets silver white snowflakes in a joyful match.this pretty red christmas fabric was quickly fused, and even more quickly cut with a round 5″ die shape from the accuquilt “go” system. round two; repeat with white christmas fabric for snowflakes and the word “joy” and there you have it…joyful red and white.and it …
good morning friday ~it was the dead of winter, errr, uhum make that a beautiful “fusing” day … when a hot iron meets hand dyed cloth, velvet, and fusible web! and… an accuquilt die! this die is new, and i love how it turned out. i do really like love the color action all the way around:once i ‘get in the mode’ …
this morning gives us fresh new meaning of “frozen!” lol we have 8 degrees above with a slight wind… it says it feels like -18. i have no doubt whatsoever that is much colder just a few miles north of us, and so… we wait it out! in the meantime, i’m keeping things heated up in the studio, and created …