Category Archives: Quilting

Happy Birthday Elizabeth

Cards, Quilting

July 2, 2026

When Gail and I decided to make another fabric bowl I knew that I was going to make mine for Elizabeth’s birthday. Elizabeth even has her own bin of daisy fabric in my stash.

This is my second attempt at this pattern and although it is better than the first it still needs some tweaking. I used a lighter fusible interfacing and that worked much better. I had a new glue and it worked better than the messy glue stick I had for the first. It was still very difficult though to sew through the interfacing and the glue; next time, if there is a next time, I’ll glue further away from the edges where I need to sew. It is all hand stitched so my fingers are going to need a rest before attempting again; sewing the top and bottom together involved pliers, a thimble and the edge of my desk to push the need through.

I did the worst job ever of wrapping this gift. I didn’t have any birthday paper so I put everything into a bag and tried to wrap just the bag. That didn’t work very well. I didn’t have a box large enough to hold the bag but I had an empty box that I’d been storing old photos in. I wrapped it all up in a a second layer. By the time I was finished I’m not sure if I had more paper or tape holding it all together.

Community Quilt – 2026 #3

Quilting
Shift Quilt (for Moda’s National Sew a Jelly Roll Day 2025)

One Tuesday when I was sewing with the Guild I was feeling particularly unmotivated. My friend, Donna Sand, showed me this pattern and I was immediately inspired.

I had several 2.5″ strips so it is totally scrappy; I even used scraps of different white fabrics that I had. I didn’t have fabric for the borders but when we were in Victoria I purchased fabric for another project and just “borrowed” a few strips to finish this off.

I fully intended to quilt it myself but when the Guild were planning a sandwiching day I realized it would be done a lot faster if I had them sandwich it. It is possible that some other member might take it home to quilt (and I’ve no doubt it will be done better than I would have done).

Community Quilt 2026-#2

Quilting

I made this in an attempt to use up more of my 2.5″ squares. The 16-patches were easy to make and I like them with sashing between the blocks.

This was done during my afternoon sessions with Gail.

Cathedral Windows

Quilting
From Indah Sewing (Gail’s pattern was from Indah Art)

This technique for Cathedral Windows was a bit different from how I would normally make them. Gail found the video online so we decided to make it at our afternoon sessions.

We made a plan to cut our fabrics so we’d be ready to sew when we got together. As it turned out we were watching a video showing the same technique but using different sizes of cut squares. Gail’s turned out much larger than mine (16″) but since I really didn’t have a plan for this I’m happy with the almost 12″ it turned out to be.