Thanks! My sewing room often becomes the "place to throw stuff that has no other home" room so this year I hope to clean it up a bit and make some cosmetic changes to make it nicer. My hubby got me a new used TV and a Roku box so I can stream netflix while I sew so thats very awesome and now my...
Not exactly a quilt, but a "project" for sure. I have a very old chair that was my grandmas that is kind of a hideous green and a bit stained thats been in my sewing room for years. I am too nostalgic to actually recover it, but decided to make a custom fitted slipcover for it out of quilted...
Its not really a pattern, its just a big block made with a sawtooth star in the middle surrounded by 4 sections of flying geese with a cornerstone.
Each block is like 23" square.
Just finished this last night and washed it today. My first queen size, and I quilted it with my walking foot on my Juki. I'm pleased with it and that I made it through a lot of scraps and old FQ.
I like to do straight line quilting with a walking foot on my domestic machines. The walking foot (if your 70s machine doesn't have one, I bet you can buy one that will fit your shank) keeps it all together and with some creative arranging of an ironing board and or card tables I can support a...
If you can afford it, do it.
I work full time and have a lot of hobbies, and while my husband and I are tidy-ish, sometimes stuff went longer than it should have before getting cleaned.
So, I pay someone to come in once a month and do a deep clean. She scrubs the tile, moves furniture and...
I am also a quilter. I just spent a lot of time cleaning and reorganizing my craft room and plan to do a lot of sewing this year. I just made this for my niece who just got married, its in the colors of her room: