Recently fate smiled upon me or something, because I won two blog giveaways in the space of a couple of days. How does that happen? I tend to enter a lot of giveaways, but I never really expect anything to come of it, you know? Sandy of Quilting for the Rest of Us had...
Hexigoodness
I thought it’d take more than one evening to stitch the binding on the hexagon mug rug since I’d never done it before, but it went much faster than I expected. I feel pretty much ready to tackle the miles of binding on the quilt once I get it to that point. No particular...
Surveyor’s Compass
Hey, I really did it! This is exactly the sort of thing I thought I’d never be able to sew. I seem to have reversed the greens from what I meant to do. I’d intended to have them follow the same light/dark pattern as the big points. That’s probably one of those things that...
Hexagons are go
I finished piecing hexagons for my mug rug: Yay! Now I need to trim it to a rectangle, figure out what I want to use for the backing, quilt it and bind it. I keep being surprised at how quick and painless hand-sewing these hexagons was. Although I like embroidery, for some reason I...