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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond These are some observations I have on felting crochet: Although I have another floor mat in progress, below, I wanted to make a few smaller items using this technique.  (The “technique” is a single crochet stitch using multiple strands of shrinkable wool yarn, and then felting it in the [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Both my sister and I like to look at houses, and so when we went up to Beaufort yesterday we did a little drive around the historic area,How would you like to wake up and have your morning coffee on this veranda? and the tulip magnolias in the spanish [...]

This morning there was a wonderfully thick layer of hoar frost on the trees, providing a perfect opportunity to take a couple snapshots.  Hopefully you will enjoy them as much as we have.

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today I was a tourist in Savannah.My sister arrived yesterday for a visit and so today we drove around to familiarize her with the layout of the town..So, in no particular order, these are some of the places we went past.  Of course, I was driving so I missed [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I decided to make the internet coupon a regular biweekly feature, so this is the coupon that will start on Feb 17th and run through the 3rd of March! Special Offer: with this coupon, you will get a free pattern (from in-stock)  with every 10 fat quarters you purchase! [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I crocheted like mad yesterday so that I could see what the mat would look like felted. un-felted felted The felting tightens up the crochet stitch, but it doesn’t shrink as much as a knitted item would.  I’m not sure why this is, possibly something to do with how [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  I like braided wool rugs,  and I like to make them.I also like to crochet, especially single crochet.  And, having a lot of odd bits of wool yarn to do something with, I have been dabbling in felted crochet.  If I hold a lot of strings together, it felts [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Today we had a really good outing!  It was a craft sale at the Savannah Convention Center, which had about 250 vendors.Each of us got a gift to ourselves!  Richard now has a psaltery that is sort of like some kind of dulcimer, which you play with a bow.  [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Block 12, Broken Dishes Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Block 12, Broken Dishes Go to Source

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  This morning I just started in on my applique like a crazy person,  I have only 7 blocks from the Art to Heart Saturday Surprise blocks from last year, since I also made this pieced quilt using some of the blocks: At the Show and Tell in September I [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is the log cabin that I was working on some weeks ago. I have now got it quilted!  It was sort of fun to do.  I did rows of feathers that run diagonally in the “furrows” — I think this setting is called “Straight furrows”.  Not sure if [...]

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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  Nancy and Miriam arranged the Saturday Surprise blocks on the wall in such a nice way! It is interesting to see how they are starting to look all together.  I predict that there are going to be some really nice quilts in the future!  If you are doing them, [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond I often participate in the work in progress link-up on Wednesdays, but the last couple of weeks have been a bit out of the routine for me.  However, I have been working on a couple of things!Both of these projects are shop samples, so you will be able to [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  I was assembling an order for books and notions, and tried to order a book we have had in stock before.  I wanted to get  more copies of “Quilts from The Selvage Edge” by Karen Griska I couldn’t seem to find it, yet I knew I had ordered it [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Ever since I discovered the printer-friendly feature, I have wanted to try to use it for customers who come to the shop who also visit this blog or the web-site.  I thought that it would be fun to offer these lovely people a coupon that you can print out [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond It is about a 20 minute drive from where I live to get into Saskatoon, but sometimes it is really pretty landscape.  This morning just before nine, the sky was all pastels, taken through my truck window at 105 km/hr here, I had pulled over for a moment, so [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This morning I “should” have been doing some store related tasks– compiling T4 slips, entering all the mountain of bills and invoices and other mail into the ledger book, even starting the quilt sample for the shop that I want to get done while I’m here in Saskatoon for [...]

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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond  For some reason, there is no light fixture in our dining room, and it gets a bit dark in there.  So we went to a very nice lighting store the other day to find one.   It was a very interesting place.  I was amazed at the beautiful fixtures that [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Well, as you know, I love to knit.  This week I went to a couple of places where I knit with some other knitters.  I was surprised to find out that many other knitters get bored with easy knitting projects!  They like to do really complicated things!  Not me.  [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Happily, my Japanese x and pluses quilt is now finished! Richard very helpfully held it up for me outside for this photo.  I like the way the grey and taupe colors are echoed in the background with the spanish moss and the painted deck.  As I might have mentioned, [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Although this might seem minor to some, I am quite happy to discover that blogger has an application to use on a mobile device so that one can make posts. Hence this is my test to see if it will work. There is still the problem that most of [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond That’s the big picture of a wall-hanging that I “finished” this week..   Actually, I sewed 99% of it a few years ago.  I had sewed some beads on to it and had run out of them, and although I looked for more, it was only recently that I [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is what I think is great news!There is a new “widget” that will turn the web-page into a PDF that is suitable for printing.  I have installed it here on the blog, and also on some pages of the Periwinkle web-site, such as the classes page, (here)  and [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is what I think is great news!There is a new “widget” that will turn the web-page into a PDF that is suitable for printing.  I have installed it here on the blog, and also on some pages of the Periwinkle web-site, such as the classes page, (here)  and [...]

Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond This is what I think is great news!There is a new “widget” that will turn the web-page into a PDF that is suitable for printing.  I have installed it here on the blog, and also on some pages of the Periwinkle web-site, such as the classes page, (here)  and [...]

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Courtesy of Periwinkle Quilting and Beyond Block 10, Kansas Troubles:I’ve always liked this block, and you can switch around the units to get different looks:  Go to Source