Category: stitching

Trials

Oh my gosh, the sunshine quilt design is proving to be very challenging. Why should I not be totally pleased with it when it’s all done? This keeps me tinkering and messing around with...

Temporary composition

Not sure what to do with these components, so I just put them together and took a photo. The colors are so eye-catching! Four strips of five colorful squares each, some dyed by Deb...

A morning’s stitching

Two more “Tower” motifs made up for the solar cloth edges. An interesting pattern made with two two-inch squares and nine one-inch squares. Lots of opportunity for color play! It works really well to...

Solar cloth, resting

Among many things, Jude Hill taught me that a cloth could rest. So here’s my beautifully bordered Solar cloth, folded and resting. And a tiny nine patch made with the excess edges trimmed from...

Solar designs so far

I started this solar design cloth in a big hurry without much of a plan, except to have four circular shapes depicting the solstices and equinoxes. Now I’m at a stage where I really...

Six five-square strips

Fun to line these all up together. The “blue banana” kind of jumps out at me! I could put some appliqué on others here and there. But the next step is the sixty (arrrggh!)...

A few squares

I seem to be finding a lot of comfort in stitching cloth scraps into squares. Nevertheless it can get a little boring. I’m exploring variations such as piecing two scraps together before stitching the...