I’m cheating a bit by posting this on Work in Progress Wednesday, because this little baby quilt is actually as finished as it will ever be, but here it is! This quilt was part of a pink reduction project I’ve been carrying out in my sewing room. I’m trying to shrink the size of my…
Like many of my quilts, this newly finished quilt has been a long time in the making. Roman Stripes is a pattern that used to be popular with Amish quilters (and may still be, although I didn’t see it when I visited Pennsylvania Dutch country a few years ago.) I adapted the pattern by making…
The winner of the Blog Hop Giveaway, chosen at random, is Joanie Page of Joanie’s Quilts. Joanie will receive a DVD from Piece O’ Cake Designs and two charm packs from Thimbleberries. Thank you to everyone who entered, and my apologies for taking so long to announce the winner. What have I been doing that distracted…
I recently joined the Lib-Quilters group on Yahoo. This group is dedicated to the spontaneous and wonky style of piecing pioneered by the original liberated quilter, Gwen Marston. I’m just dipping my toe in the waters of wonky piecing, but I like the free spirit and crazy color combinations that prevail in this group. (By the way,…
This week’s easy quilt block is made of nine small fabric squares arranged in a checkerboard pattern. The graphic above shows the two kinds of nine-patch blocks you can make from two fabrics. That’s what I will show you how to do in this post. Supply List Here’s what you will need: Fabric strips in…
Right after I finished my post on how to sew a Friendship Star block, I discovered an easy variation of the block that uses three fabrics instead of two. This gives the block a whole different, scrappier look. In the three-color variation, the star’s center square is a different fabric from the star points. Here’s…
Every quilter should have a few star blocks in her bag of tricks. This week’s easy quilt block, the Friendship Star, is one of the simplest star blocks you can make. I also like it best among the star blocks because of its charming pinwheel quality. The block is made by combining squares with half-square…
Today I had to admit that it’s February, and not even the beginning of February, but almost Valentine’s Day. It was time to finally take down my beloved snowflake garland and put up something — anything — that celebrates red, or pink, or hearts, or love, or something. For some time I’ve been meaning to make a…
In the spirit of making good use of the blocks that are taking up space in my sewing room, I’m in the process of making one of my favorite easy quilts — a rail fence quilt made entirely with batiks. I’ve made this quilt many times, for friends, to donate to charities, and to sell….
This quilt grew out of an advanced case of clutter frustration. I was tired, tired, tired of having bags of scraps sitting all around my quilting room. I swore to myself that I would get rid of all the scraps from at least one of these bags. The red bag was my starting point because…
Today’s project (and yesterday’s, and tomorrow’s) is machine quilting a quilt using some of the improvised Log Cabin blocks I made from my red scrap bag. The blocks themselves make a vertical line of red in a field of white. The blocks are simply stitched in the ditch, and now I’m working on stippling acres…
I was doing some quilt blog-hopping the other day when I saw this tutorial on how to take an ordinary four-patch block, cut it up, and turn it into a cool new block that looks much more interesting than the original. I just had to try it for myself. I started with four five-inch squares,…