Setting Goals and Designing Quilts
Well the weather here in Victoria BC has continued to be clear and cold and the skating on Panama Flats is still happening. The forecast is for warmer weather soon. We have been lucky here on the south island though as we have managed to escape most of the snow and...
Pantographs
About a week ago I wrote about how create a pantograph using Electric Quilt 7 software. I created a simple coffee mug pantograph from a colouring book page. I have quilted three quilts now using pantographs. One was a paw...
New Year’s Reflections
Happy New Year! Wow I can't believe another year has started. I never used to really think about this before but now that I am working for myself I am actually finding I am enjoying the process of looking back over 2016 of what worked, what didn't and where I need to...
How to Create a Pantograph using Electric Quilt 7
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We had a very quiet Christmas around here with just Kevin, myself, Mom and of course the two fur babies Cocoa and Mia. We just do stockings as really there is not much we need or want anymore but it's fun to have...
Customer Service
Well it's Christmas time and what does the song say "the most wonderful time of the year"! Well, I do like Christmas and I do enjoy getting together with family and friends and I can say it is defiantly a busy time of the year. I should put a warning here, this is a...
More Snow and a Pantograph
Well, it's certainly a busy time of year. I've been a little lax posting on the blog but only because I haven't been home a lot these days and if I am home I have been busy quilting client quilts which of course is a good thing. Last Tuesday my partner and I ventured...
Snow Day
Oh the weather outside is frightful! Ugh! We haven't had any real snow in Victoria for at least two years now however that was broken last week and it snowed again this morning. Granted the one snowfall lasted all of one day but still! The positive thing about snow it...
Life is a Journey
Kevin and I had our open house on Saturday. It was a lot of fun catching up with people we haven't seen in years (we keep in touch by Facebook) and in some cases getting to know our neighbours better. I decorated the house for the holidays last week and did a lot of...
Holiday Open House
So this morning I sat down to write a blog post however this is proving to be quite frustrating. First the computer said it didn't have any internet. OK fine reboot the computer and start over, alright now I have internet and everything is working so the pictures I...
Threads of Life
Not much to report on the quilting front these days. I enjoyed quilting the last client quilt I had as it really made me think of how to quilt it. Someone asked what pattern was used and upon asking my client she said the pattern was called Slice. Things seem to have...