After moving to the east side of Sparks (from west side of Reno) to a smaller but sunnier condo, I’ve finally unpacked most of my quilting supplies and fabrics. Set up a small part of the second bedroom with my table and an old bookcase in the closet to house fabric. On one wall I put up the design wall…thank goodness for 3M Adhesive strip hooks!
My small work space…that Princess Feather block was pieced by my GGGrandma in Nebraska.
One half of my fabric stash.
I left a big box of civil war reproduction fabrics in the box and tucked it in the back of my closet…another box is loaded with prints of various colors.
My $1 chair I bought over the weekend from a garage sale.
Now onto the Work-in-Progess quilts ~ (minus a quilt top I made with Kate Spain fabric that I forgot to pull out).
Left: Triangle rows out of Frolic. Need to add a few onto each row and make it longer. Right: English paper pieced Grandma’s Flower Garden out of batiks.
Cut Frolic triangles.
Hexie wall-hanging made with Lauren & Jessi Jung Flora charm pack.
Farmer’s Wife quilt blocks that I’m hand-piecing with Denyse Schmidt’s Hope Valley.
Farmer’s Wife ‘Cut Glass Dish’ block that I have with me now to stitch together at lunch.
Welcome back. Just curious – how do you cut your triangles? Do you have a template? I have a new pattern that calls for a 60 degree angle cut and I’m reluctant to buy a another template that I might not use again. I’m thinking of just following the lines on my cutting mat.
I bought an EZ triangle from Connecting Threads when they were on sale. I paid less than what they are selling for now with this sale ~ http://www.connectingthreads.com/tools/Tri-Recs_Tools_____________D80756.html
Too bad I’m not in the US. So many suppliers don’t ship overseas 😦 Thanks for the tip tho. I’ll try and find one from a company that WILL send it to me.
Really? CT doesn’t ship to Australia? Can’t cost that much to send to you, no?
Probably doesn’t cost that much to ship, but I guess it depends on the amount of packaging they use. I have a blog post coming on the amount of packaging that Hancocks of Paducah used so send me a single pack of sewing machine needles recently – just extraordinary. Quite a few US companies don’t send to Australia, so we just look out for the ones that do, and share that info with our quilting bothers and sisters, locally.
I’m more than willing to ship you something if you want. Let me know.
Thanks so much. I’m on vacation this week – will drop you an email when I get home.
I really love your new sewing area, and especially that new chair! Just all perfect together. And you’re inspiring me FW’s-wise! 😀
I love how you’ve set up your sewing area! It’s wonderful! The quilts that you’re working on are gorgeous!!!
It’s NOTHING compared to your sewing setup…but I get the job done. LOL!