Lady Di's Blog

Sweet Dreams Mystery quilt top

LadyDi — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:54:00 GMT

In 2010 I made the Sweet Dreams mystery quilt. Here's a pic of the top before I added the borders. I really like this pattern that is created with the placement of the light and dark fabrics.

Here's a pic of the final quilt. The piano keys-style scrappy borders were added and I quilted it with free-motion meandering. This quilt is used regularly on our king size bed.

Quilt Top Finish - Mystery Quilt VI "Bittersweet"

LadyDi — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:44:00 GMT

In an effort to use up the mound of scraps I have accumulated I made the Mystery Quilt VI. Cutting a total of (628) 2-1/2" squares was challenging. I pretty much followed the steps given except step one where you make 96 four-patch blocks. I made my 16-patch blocks as one step. I haven't decided if I will add the 4-inch border.

First Blog, First Post

LadyDi — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:22:00 GMT

After many years of prompting by friends I decided to take the leap and create a blog. So this is it! My first blog post on my first blog.

I love to create and make things. It's just how I'm wired. For the past eight years I have been quilting, or at least, trying to quilt. My first attempts were pretty amaturish, but my skills have improved and my newer quilts seem to as well. At present I have three tops that need to be sandwiched and quilted. One of those has been partially quilted on my domestic machine. It would have been done months ago had I not run into problems with tension. I can't count the number of times I "unstitched" and started over. I tried everything I could think of including rethreading the machine, switching the upper thread, rewinding the bobbin, switching the bobbin thread, changing the needle, and reinstalling the darning foot. Things are working better and I can see light at the end of the tunnel. This quilt will get finished this year...I hope.