Blogs bring the world to my laptop, but I also enjoy the local ones. I’m a regular reader of Georgia on My Mind, which features a weekly Georgia Blog Carnival, and this week it’s hosted by Marketing Through the Clutter. If you’re a Georgia Peach (international readers – it’s our state fruit), or [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Somebody Stop Me!
I’m surprised my sewing machine isn’t smoking I’ve been using it so much this December. When I need a break from quilting the UGA quilt, I’ve been making multitudes of these. They’re the QuiltSmart bags. No pattern needed, just use their interfacing and the pattern is printed right on it. On [...]
A Sea of Fabric
Wow. I feel dwarfed by this quilt when I’m at my machine. It takes me, my sewing table, and a chair to hold it all. But we’re plugging along, block-by-block, and it’s almost done.
I’m spending 80% of my time wrestling, ahem, nudging, the quilt through my machine, and the other 20% actually [...]
Letting Go . . . Not!
I couldn’t do it. I had the best of intentions, but when it came time to part with Emily’s UGA quilt top, I just knew it belonged to my hands to quilt. Not literally hand-quilting, but the quilting design and the machine quilting I wanted to do. So here it is, being [...]
Blurry Blog Header Blues
After months of attempting to figure out what was wrong with my blurry blog header image, Judy Perez of Painted Threads pointed me in the right direction. I had searched for the answer online extensively, and no one had ever written about this, so I’m doing it now.
Supplying your own blog image header requires [...]
Thank You
Yesterday when I picked up my son from school, he asked me a question that came directly to the point: “Did you have a bad blog day?” It must have shown. Yes, in fact, I did have a terrible blog day. But it got much better, and the results are on [...]
Christmas Preparations
The elves have been busy here. Playing Christmas tunes on the keyboard. Putting up the artificial tree, which husband curses every year. Decorating the mantel with the snow family and string-pieced stockings.
Gearing up for the much-anticipated event around here:
The annual making of the Gingerbread house. I used to do these from [...]
Emily’s UGA Dorm Quilt
I’m finally getting close to completing Emily’s UGA dorm quilt. Red and black, of course. This quilt will be handed down to all the Peagler children who attend UGA, so the trick was to select fabrics that wouldn’t be either too feminine or masculine. I realized how many quilting fabrics are florals, [...]
Pink Floral Apron
Voila! In no time, here’s my finished apron! I love the fabrics, and this Threads pattern is so easy to whip up. Living in a house with all men, it’s a treat to get to make something feminine once in a while. So I went with pink florals and polka-dots!
The bottom [...]
Apron Sneak Peek
I really did buy the Threads issue this summer with the apron pattern in it. I can’t find it for the life of me, even turning my studio upside down looking for it, so I’m going with Plan B. I’m making the classic apron that was in Threads 2005 issue and I’ve [...]
Kaleidoscope Quilt
Janice Chesnik, a member of the Dawsonville Heart & Hand guild, was at our soiree at Sew Memorable this week and she showed this beautiful Kaleidoscope quilt:
Can you tell that Janice used to make the real thing? She and her husband made kaleidoscopes for over 25 years. And she’s friends with Paula Nadelstern, [...]
