Tag: Blogiversery

Trimming the Pink Flower Garden

Yesterday we put the finishing touches on the appliques and now it is time to complete the quilting!!

There were several areas where the grid quilting needed to be filled in.

I initially drew in my grids…..

…but then decided to add the actual stitching lines so I wouldn’t get confused…..

I remembered that I wanted the blue areas of these flowers to look like more of the sky, so I also drew in the quilting designs….

After some careful quilting, I am happy with the illusion that the blue portions of the flower are actually sky, meaning that the pink rays are the actual flower…..

Within a relatively short time, the quilting was finished….

After a quick binding session, the quilt is finished……

I am thrilled with how it turned out!! It is whimsical, well quilted and PINK!!!

AND….it is a great way to celebrate my ……

I started writing quilting blogs on this day, way back in 2008. Hopefully there is another 15 years to go!!!

Please come back next week as we lead up to the big event on the 25th!!!

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Thank you…….

It’s my BLOGIVERSERY!!

Today marks the 13th anniversary of my blog…..

This blog began as a travel blog when Michael and I spent two months in England, way back in 2007.  Before we left several people had said for me to email them and tell them all about the trip.   As I thought about it, I knew that I wouldn’t spend hours emailing each of those individuals so decided to start a blog and anyone who wanted could have a look at it.   After that, I did additional blogs for our India trip and our Australia trip in 2008.  

Then in December of 2008, I got the idea to make ONE blog to hold all of the Arnold family exploits, both quilting and not…. and I called it Quilts & Other Stuff!!!

Writing this has been an amazing experience and has made me much more aware of my surroundings, my creativity, and the events in my life.

I have made some amazing friends that I will probably never meet in person, but we have happily connected over the wonderful art of quilting!!

Thank you all for continuing to read and comment and be a part of my quilting journey.

You have certainly enriched it!!