Swooze's Quilts and Tall Tales

I just finished the binding on another Matchstick Marimba. It’s swimming in the washing machine right now and I have hopes of mailing it o...

I set my goal to catch up with my mystery quilt and to fix my horse quilt. I set stretch goals too. They were to finish the next installm...

I freehand quilted hearts and flowers using my Avante. The quilt pattern is Strip Stacks. I immediately loaded another quilt...

IWow I’ve had a full week and now my blog content has stacked up. First I pulled this off the frame this week. My goal is to bind it over th...

I had a date with the seam ripper this past week and got the chevron border off the horse quilt. I ripped the borders down and have to sew ...

I didn’t meet my January goal so let’s hope this month is better. This month is going to be two piecing goals. 1) catch up on my Border Cre...

I sewed and trimmed and sewed. I had a pile of half chevrons that were half trimmed. It took 1.5 hours to finish the trimming. I started m...

I have all the units sewn. Half are trimmed to their final size with one a .25” short. I’ll finish trimming and address that last. ...

I’m trying to not over make units for my chevron row. After I sewed what I had cut I inventoried and cut a little more. Still a little mo...

I have round 2 of Ray’s quilt under construction. The buckskin color really draws out the light brown in the first round. My init...

I’ve been working on Ray’s quilt. Round 1 was applied. Needs a good pressing. I have the overall plan for his quilt just need cutting siz...

I started this year with 50 UFOs. The majority are unquilted tops. As I mentioned before I made a list of 12 quilts that I’d really like ...

When the FAL challenge comes around I have been laundry listing all my UFOs. Sort of cheating really. Not very thoughtful about what I rea...

Time to declare my January OMG. I will finish my second Matchstick Marimba. It needs to be quilted and bound. Linking up with Elm S...

I set my quarterly goals here . It is my laundry list of my UFOs and WIPs. I did accomplish a few of them. There was my Purple Cow bab...

I started this quilt back in 2009. I love cow print and had this lavender in my stash so decided to make a purple cow. I didn’t have my Av...

It’s swimming in the tub right now but I declare it done! My goal was to quilt and bind this quilt. After several missteps through the yea...

This has been loaded for a bit. Quilted it today with embroidery thread of all things! Also did rule r work. Now to t...

Earlier this year the stashbuster yahoogroup was talking about Bright Hope blocks. I thought they were cute and a little more interesting th...

Six years ago I bought a partially made Double Wedding Ring quilt from a Project Linus garage sale. There was a bunch of melons made and t...