Karen’s Quilting
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I'm Karen. I have lived in Arkansas since 1980. I hand quilt, handpiece, and machine piece, love needle turn applique. Besides quilting, I love hiking, camping, gardening, reading & traveling. Follow all my Quilt ideas and designs here!
Karen’s Quilting
3h ago
I have a sneak peak for the Fat Quarter Shop quilt that I am making their name for the pattern will be English Ivy – I will be giving it a different name when I finish it. I will be able to share it around May 10th I believe. So right now I really can’t ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
1d ago
Yesterday was all about being outside. I planted 10 small very healthy tomato plants and two pepper plants – one sweet red and one orange. It is always surprising how fast these will grow – within 6 weeks or so they might be to the top of the cages. Honeysuckle growing and smells so pretty ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
2d ago
When the spring time almost summer time weather comes I find it harder to post things about quilting because I am spending more time outside. I’m also spending more time rushing to make progress on the quilt that I am making for a promo for the Fat Quarter Shop as time is almost up ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
3d ago
Progress has been made quilting Carpenters Wheel and the fix to keep the frame a little more stable seems to be working for now. I think I have it all figured out now for the quilting design One side of the binding is done on Hunter’s Star and the second side was started. Linking to ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
4d ago
Mike came up with a solution to try to see if he could make the quilting frame less wobbly causing the rods to slightly move out of place – now to see if it works. As I stated the hand quilting frame is 30 years old and I really love it. I used hoops before ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
5d ago
All is back to normal here at home. Thanks for those that reached out and wanted to know if we had water damage from the water pipe – no it was all outside thank goodness but the water needed to be shut off until the repair was done. You never know how much you depend ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
1w ago
I’m taking a two day blogging break- not much to post right now – we have a broken water pipe we need to deal with and an out of town appointment to keep also – I’ll post Friday! all is well ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
1w ago
A little of everything done yesterday. It was an off and on light rain day so I got a little more done in the sewing room then I had been. First I had ironed on my freezer paper templates for Georgetown on my Mind and then got them cut. Some of this is done with ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
1w ago
The binding was put on Hunter’s Star and it is ready for the hand work over the next week or so – it is all folded up here on the couch handy for me to work on – these are just some of the colors on the binding. Today I hope to get started picking ..read more
Karen’s Quilting
1w ago
I finished Hunter’s Star Thursday night – and got it off the frame. I did get all the excess cut off the sides and it is folded and ready for binding to be added when I get to it which I know won’t be for a couple days at least. I’m linking all my yellow ..read more