I just bought myself a new sewing machine. I had my Singer Quantum for 13 years and it is a good machine but it was not made for quilting. It is too small, and doesn’t really do free motion that well. But it will still do well for other kinds of sewing… The new machine … More An expensive Christmas present
pardon our dust, and broken links, while we are redoing this space…
How about some more chevrons with easy cutting and assembling? But first, continuing with a previous post, let me just show you how the diamonds/chevron shape would change with an angle of your cut: Pretty self-explanatory, right? OK, now onto our main topic: Let’s say you want to do some chevrons that are “stacked together”, … More half rectangle “triangles” -> chevron
If you sew those hexagons together without white strips around the hexagons, you get diamonds. You can see it better if you match up the triangles:
I just realized I did not take a picture of the finished top. This is as close as I got when I took this picture. Close enough. And today I basted it. And started quilting. I am doing free motion, just your basic random swirls. I am quilting it quite dense, because I think this … More Tolva quilt:: basted
Just briefly… I finished the last four hexagons today. And then I worked, and worked, and worked… on the layout. After a few iterations, here is the final layout: I probably should have taken one in focus. Oh, well…
I have been thinking about Half Rectangle Traingles ever since I saw this post by asquaredw. More specifically I have been thinking about the little kites she created by mistake. But I liked them and kept thinking how I can use them. Then just before the holidays I got to try my idea and I … More Tolva quilt
Have you ever been up at 4 am? I have… It’s the worst. Whatever you might think about 4 am, this will give you a whole new perspective…
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