Josephine Sews

I am the master of making the simple, hard.  The quilt from Missouri Star Quilt Company  is like its name says - Super Simple Squares. This was that project that broke me and made me want to give up.  But now that I am on the other side of it, I will not be defeated.  To that end, I am moving beyond my comfort zone of baby quilts and am going bigger.  I already have a quilt top that I just pieced together and it is 47 by 47.  I do plan to quilt it using my embroidery machine. What Went Wrong I printed the instructions, looked at them one time, and actually thought I had it memorized - NOT.  I ended up mistakenly adding about 9 additional strips in between the rows that made it even longer. I should have known something was wrong when I had to sew more squares and did not have enough fabric for my borders.  Instead of checking the pattern I forged on, sewed more squares and made my borders smaller. I added the backing, batting, and pins to keep eve...

OESD posted some new Laurel Burch designs and I had to have them.  I love the Laurel Burch designs because they are always so colorful.  I knew when I bought the designs a few months back that I would stitch at least one of them on this jacket (StyleArc Stacie Jean Jacket ). The design collection is called  Celestial by Laurel Burch and the design I used on the back is the Celestial Applique 1.  For the applique fabric I used their Luxe Sparkle Vinyl which is washable and ironable.  I don't remember how long it took to stitch out but it was hours.  I also put a couple designs on the front and sleeves.  I meant to use two different colors on the sleeves like I did on the front panels, but I forgot to change the thread. This was my first project on my new baby Margaret (aka Janome Continental M17).  Really loving this machine and will be doing a review sometime later. I will not do my normal post because I have made this jacket five times now (thi...