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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  I have been trying to sort and organize the photos on my computer (and ipad). This is sort of complicated, since i seem to have about 17,000 photos on it.  I want to shift many of them on to memory sticks, but am afraid that I would just forget entirely [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This time the block is called Four Stars, for the obvious reasons: Go to Source

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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond When I made the page about the works in progress, I only listed the ones in Saskatoon. Now that I am in Savannah, I must own up to the fact that I have projects on the go here as well. These are two that I have worked on this [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I have started a new project. I decided that I needed some decorative spools to hold my special ribbons. So I am making some out of clay. I have posted about this on my Clay blog, but while I was thinking of doing this I googled some images of [...]

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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Well, as this is the year when we have 6 months of snow, (lucky us to live through a record-breaking winter), we must think of spring things anyway.  Any way we can. I like to contemplate flowers.  (I bet the florists are doing a booming business this month!) Go to [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond today the block is of some tesselating maple leaves, Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I stitched a wool edging on to the table runner I had in progress. On the way home today I got the urge to get some flowers and they go pretty well with it. also new is the vase, which I just took out of the kiln this morning,… [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I was pleasantly surprised when tidying up my sewing room to find a stack of hexagons already basted to paper pieces that were left over from a previous project. The great part is that they will be useable for my current project! Yay. Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond One of the things that you can easily make with ribbon is a bracelet.The ones I have pictured here are really simple.   The ends of the ribbon are just crimped inside these metal ends called ribbon crimps.  They are open a bit when you get them, and you just [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today I took a photo of this new fabric group we have in by Basic Grey for moda, called PB and J (don’t ask me why it’s called that)  I just love these fabrics! (but then I love most fabrics, don’t I?)  As I was taking the photo, it [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I’ve decided to devote this week to ribbon. Remember, we started a Ribbon Contest yesterday! Today I thought that I would show you how I store my ribbon at home.  There are probably lots of ways you could store it, these are just a couple of ways. 1. I have [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I was elated when I saw the quilting Patti did on my Salt Water Shoreline quilt.   She did a squared spiral on the diagonal all over the top  It’s textural and suits the quilt perfectly,   Look at the way the sun makes shadows on it, To me it evokes [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I know that a while ago, I broached the idea of having a contest with a ribbon theme.  I haven’t forgotten about this.  I just haven’t had any brilliant ideas about how to present it.  So, without further ado, I will just make it a simple contest. The Ribbon [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond The “internal metal purse frames” arrived, and so now we have them in three sizes at the store.  I know how hard it is to figure out how to use them, so I wanted to include an instruction sheet with each one.  So, of course i thought that I [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond The “internal metal purse frames” arrived, and so now we have them in three sizes at the store.  I know how hard it is to figure out how to use them, so I wanted to include an instruction sheet with each one.  So, of course i thought that I [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I thought about adding a zig zag border to one of the quilt tops that I have on the go, and so I made some test swatches, like you do in knitting to find the right gauge, On the same day, I also did some machine quilting on my [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Why have one hexagon project when you can have two? at least that seems to be my mode. Last autumn I bought a stack of vintage hand pieced grandmothers flower blocks. I think there are about 45 of them. Some have two rings of petals and some have an [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond this week is Pinwheel: Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I had my camera with me a couple of days ago when I went to the store, so I took a few photos to show what’s new in the past week or two … (Of course I forgot to take a photo of the stencils– about 45 new designs [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Spent about 5 hours doing bookwork/computer stuff today, and that seemed like a marathon.  I spent an hour sewing after that, and it was much more enjoyable. (this shows the next border being added, but before the batting for this round has been added) I added on another round [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I was looking through a stack of  quilted items, and found this small teatime wall hanging, above.Also, I thought that I would go on record as finishing another knitted shawl.  This is the fifth one I’ve made in this style, just a simple triangle that is finished off with [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I’m making progress.. yesterday I quilted the little baby quilt size of the new pattern I wrote called “Fallingwater”.  This morning I finished sewing on the binding, so that’s all done!  I put minkee fleece on the back, which makes it really soft for a little person.  The quilting [...]

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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today we have a new block called Reflected Mountains, I hope you’re having a nice weekend,It’s been a lovely day here, with snow starting to melt!  Hope we don’t get another snowfall. Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond We were running a giveaway with the closing time of last night, so these are the lucky slips that got pulled out of the draw bins! First up are the Blog groupings, where you just had to leave a comment to enter: (thank you to all of you who [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today is the draw winners for the giveaway, which I’ll publish the post in a little while when I hear from the girls at the store who won the draws there. In the meantime, I can let you know that the blog draws came out like this:  On another note, [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  I started my quilt using Salt Water fabrics by Tula Pink.  I am quilting it in sections so that I can be a bit more ambitious in the free motion quilting areas.  I find that it can get quite unwieldy to twist and turn a piece if its too [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is the Four Crosses quilt that I made using the Parson Gray fabrics.  I’m not alone in observing that these fabrics seem like they would be great to use for a “man’s” quilt.  My new photo taking system has a drawback for when the quilt is wider than [...]