I almost feel guilty with this week’s photos. You see, the color was green, and it’s spring here in NC, so as soon as the snow melted last week we were back down to daffodils, blooming forsythia and every shade of green imaginable. No. You don’t understand. I’m from the Pacific Northwest I THOUGHT I [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for March, 2009
I’ve come down with a head cold. Too stuffed up to concentrate on editing green photos to post. Will try to get them done tomorrow. In the meantime, somehow stitching crazy quilt seams isn’t nearly as dizzy-making as trying to work on the computer. So back to that! More photos soon, I promise.
That I forgot I had done!! I was trying to pull stuff together to start embellishing those blocks for the Encrusted Crazy Quilt class… And found a block that I’d started and not finished a while ago. There were two little seams left to finish. So as a warm up to stitching the new one, [...]
Yellow was supposed to be easy. The daffodils bloomed last week. We had 70 degree weather! Um… yeah. and I got stuck behind a desk while the sun was out. So. Three photos. All of bananas. Well, one banana. Tonight it’s supposed to snow. So there may be photos of daffodils in snow later, like [...]
I am taking Sharon Boggin’s Encrusted Crazy Quilt class this month through Joggles. Despite all the bellydance workshops and shows this week, I managed to get two blocks pieced. The first wasn’t as successful as the second, initial design-wise, but I’m hoping I can fix some of the problems in the embellishment stage: the most [...]