Wensleydale quilt

This week I and 160 other women showed up at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, Utah for Amy McClellan’s Under the Garden Moon Retreat 2022. I’ve been looking forward to this for a long lon…

It was sort of a perfect day here in Portland. Sunny and only a little over 80 degrees. So we started our evening walk a little earlier tonight. Once we got home I hit my sewing room to dig in on a…

At the end of last year, I decided to make a quilt for my oldest son. Sure, I made several quilts and blankets for him in the past,...

My Carisbrook quilt, made with the Wensleydale pattern..... is waiting to be put together! I have moved a couple of blocks around since checking it out as a black and white photo. I am always looking to get fabric out of my stash cupboard and into my wardrobe. This fabric was a remnant purchased for $8 last year from Darn Cheap. The pattern is the Harvest top, free, from Peppermint magazine. Now it is hanging in my wardrobe, I was surprised to find I have no other yellow garments there! And…

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With no Dirty Dozen deadlines in January and February, I’m hoping you’ll send your finishes to me anyway. Everybody loves a quilt show! Connie’s progress on Wensleydale: My Villa Rosa quilt called …

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My latest quilt is finished... the Wensleydale pattern by Jen Kingwell. I decided once I'd basted it that I'd hand quilt it. A close-up of the hand quilting I used Aurifil 28 in a bright red for the quilting in a simple design, basically copying what Jen Kingwell had done on her original design. I also used a piece of bamboo batting that I'd picked up on Facebook Marketplace for a bargain. Originally this quilt I'd called "Carisbrook" after my new hometown. But as I named my last finish…