Planet Nice Crafts

Hello everyone, hope all is well with you. This is a robust post. First of all, the project is complete and no, this is not an April Fools funny. The quilting went smoothly. I kept the pattern simple, following the suggestion in the instructions: stitching around each block, sashing, and background. Then, not following the instructions, I just went around the edge a few times, making a big rectangle. I chose this strategy because the top is so complex that I thought any additional intricacy would not have much of an impact. In fact, you really don’t see the quilting from the top, the best shot is this close-up of the back. The final step was to bind the edges of the quilt, and since I was unfamiliar on how to proceed, I followed an excellent Craftsy tutorial. First, I made a gigantic strip of the binding fabric. Finally, the binding was attached to the edge of the quilt on the front by machine and on the back by hand. Luckily, there was a bit of sunshine yesterday so ...

Today is a bright, sunny day, very representative of Spring which is less than a week away. Ironically, I do not have a bright sunny picture to share with you today, but instead one from the storm earlier in the month. All the pictures in this post have been edited in Adobe Photoshop, let me know if you can decipher a difference. How does the weather affect the work at Planet Nice? Well, the increased hours of light are very welcome because the natural light reaching the work area, which has great Southern exposure, is better than any artificial light. So, we left off when the quilt top was complete and the finishing steps (including the actual quilting) were next. But before the finishing could begin, a puzzle was encountered. Here is a picture of it: I won’t reveal the puzzle right away, because I would like to give everyone a chance to discover it on their own. In the meantime, I would like to address the comment left on the previous post, about Game of T...