Author: stitchedinlayers

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It all started with Primitive Gatherings

These cute wool ornaments were in their booth at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, VA in February, 2017.

Sold as adorable wool kits, Do you want to build a Snowman?

And Stacked Trees.

Then cameWool Candy Canes

In January!  The perfect car project; just need wire cutters.

And they came in small, medium and large.  Had I only read the description better…I got 4 of each size thinking they would be great for my quilting friends.  But there were two in each kit, so now, finally this Friday in April I have 24!  Really ready for Christmas 2018.

 

Placed this quilt on my “spring” table this year.  The top I completed for class I had the opportunity to teach in Janesville, WI in 1992.  Its called Brass Rings from a book called Quilts, Quilts, Quilts

Hand quilted, it hung in our dining room and then my sewing room; and now visits in the spring on our “kitchen” table.  Loved this quilt; its layout, its construction, and decided to remake it with what I had on hand.

Lets call it my Angel Quilt.  Stitched in Layers on my Long Arm (not even a dream in 1992) with a design called Finger Painting, its ready for gifting!

 

Hoping this will be a place where I can share what I love – Quilts and quilting!  Hope you enjoy what I have to show and what I might have to say.  Thank you to my daughter Anne who encouraged and enabled this beginning!

This was a Leader Ender Project that began last year to use some of the those tiny Moda squares (Yellow and Blue, a perpetual favorite). And to try a “speedy” four patch stitching technique I found on the web.  Will have to see if I can find it again!

Slowly but surely It became and obsession to finish them all!  I used up all the scrap yellow I had on had (well not all of it – I had so much) for the setting squares.  And to remember how to make setting triangles!I used up even more yellow in a pieced a border!  Which I liked okay at the time.  It has hung in the basement (my long arm space) for months now waiting to be quilted.  Thankfully I never got to quilting because as I was cleaning out my sewing room (An annual January event) I found these Mark Lipinski fabrics (fat quarters) that I had stashed and thought they would might be a better fit.  Love the result…..now to stitch it in layers!