Swooze's Quilts and Tall Tales

While I contemplate next steps on my Pfefferneuse quilt I decided to work on this quilt.  It's from the book Allegro by Atkinsons Desig...

The blocks all around the outside edges are intended for the outside border.  My original thought was to put a double border between the wh...

Unfortunately it is the only one sewn correctly in this pic.  Three sets of twosies out of 24 isn't too bad. I quickly corrected them an...

Nope.  It's just me being silly.  I laid out my pieced border.  More designing will be needed after I get the center and the inner bord...

All the pinwheels are made.  A plan has been hatched.  Need 12 of these units.  Next step is to work on my pieced outer border using the com...

Do any of these greens stand out too much from the others?  I can stay with the four I already have or add some or all of the three greens ...

Remember Orca Bay?  I was gifted so many pieces and parts for that quilt.  When I finished the second quilt top I had hundreds of QSTs lefto...

Ready for quilting !  Onto the next project.    

Oh my....more decisions.  I've cut up all my blue batik into 2" strips already.  Whatever the decision I am going to have to piece ...

I've been doing a bit of frogging since I last blogged.  You can look at my last post about Grand Illusion and see that the borders are ...

Well it hasn't been a mystery since January 1st but now I know what MY quilt looks like.  One more good pressing then it will be added t...

Back on the 2nd I had the four patches made and some of the other components made except the star points.  I have worked a little on this e...

I have all my blocks done.  I went with a 3x4 setting.  I was auditioning everything together so just took a closer (blurry) picture of a sm...

This is the first Bonnie Hunter mystery that I sewed along with.  I have participated in three of her NYE mysteries that are held in Plano, ...

Here is my Lazy Sunday quilt by Bonnie Hunter up to the first border.  It calls for a green and neutral HST border then a blue and neutral d...

Remember the stash box I posted about recently?  There were these little tags in there that you use to mark your blocks when you have your l...

See the drawn line?  See the cut edge?  That's a span of 3 3/8ths inches.  This is the second border after the red.  I managed to ease ...

While I was making the first bag my friend commented how much she liked it.  She has been enduring some struggles and I thought she could us...

I remember around 10 years ago when no-sew fleece blankets were all the rage.  You just put two pieces of fleece together, fringed them and ...

I posted about this quilt a few weeks ago.  When I received it the backing was see through in spots in addition to the quilt having several ...