Sew I See!

 I'm moving my blog!   After frustrations with the limitations of Blogger—and after becoming accustomed to building pages in WordPress, as part of work—I've decided to pack up this blog and move to a new location.   The new blog looks much the same as this one, really (especially the mobile version), but I think it will be more pleasant to work with, and that's worth a lot.   Donald very kindly set up the new blog for me.  (I can add to existing sites, but have never started one from scratch...)  We migrated the old blog posts from here to there, so they should be at the new site.  However, I'll be leaving this here for now, too.   Future blog posts will only appear at the new site:   https://sewisee.com/ There may be some minor adjustments to color and layout over the next little while, but it's already up and running.  I hope you'll join me over there!

After finishing a few older WIP and UFO quilt tops, it felt like time to start something new.  I thought "Bitcoin", designed by Bonnie Hunter, might be a good choice for something easy and fun.   "Bitcoin" also seemed like a good way to use up some of the fabric I have that's too busy for use in most of the patterns I gravitate toward.  Some of this is fabric bought on clearance, pretty much only  because  it was on clearance.  Some of it is stuff I chose back before I had actually made many quilts, before I fully realized that wildly multi-colored fabric, while often beautiful, can be trickier to use than fabric with more subdued color schemes.  (The same thing is true for variegated yarn.  You can definitely use it, but it can be limiting and more work to find a pattern that looks "right" in a strongly variegated yarn.)   This fabric—novelty prints, oversized florals, busy and colorful designs—has been accumulating over time.  I wanted to put some of