Archive for July 11th, 2009

• Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show – 2009

  Today Gordon and I went to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters, Oregon, which is located in the central part of the state. It’s a cute town in a gorgeous setting — Ponderosa pines everywhere and the beautiful Sisters mountains. For the show they hang quilts (1200 of them this year) [...]

  July 11th, 2009

• ABC Embroidered Quilt Block — Mailman

  When I started this project, I had a few rules:
  Each block would use one color of variegated floss.
  Each letter would have a pattern design — same pattern on each letter.
  The letter designs would stay inside the letters.
  The first rule has been broken twice, and now with this block I’m breaking the last two. You [...]

  July 11th, 2009