Carli The Quilter

Hello all of my quilty friends! I have been out of touch for a while and lots has been happening.  We have moved to the South Island and have listed our home in Smithers. We sold our RV and we bid farewell to a shelter well spent! I first featured the quilt below in spring of 2015. With completion date met, the owner refused to take possession of it. I was shocked to say the least. I was left with no other recourse to have small claims court for the full payment of this quilt. Serving legal papers took steely nerves on my part and finally after three tries, I managed to serve the owner and I sped away at a high speed. My friend took the brunt of that served papers and that brought more heartache and worry.  But the buyer, who paid only half, had more dollars to spend on lawyers to defend why she shouldn't pay the full amount. From my standpoint I've been ripped off in such a sad way. This quilt was first commissioned to me in the fall of 2014 with ar...

Welcome! I'm so glad you are joining me! Its "Mug Rug Blog Hop" week With Diane Gilliard and this is my day to share what I've been up to in preparing to participate with fun EPP blog hop! I have read this whole book now. I am drawn to the style of it actually, Diane has written this self help book in an interesting way. I laughed when I read that Diane is not a fan of patterns and prefers to make her own design, me too! *******My 1/4 HST Square Hexie Block Tutorial******** These blocks are sewn together before hand and then pieced together to form this "Steam Punk" kind of look. I liked the idea of a mug rug and have someone special in mind for them as a gift. I chose to learn how to reconstruct my own EPP shape and put it all together. I was a wee bit weak at the knees a couple of times just stressing about all my UFO's and patterns on the go that my mind went back to some good advice on what to do about your UFO's...