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Where would we quilters be without Flying Geese quilt blocks? Those handy geese play an essential role in making so many other blocks, from North Star: to Dutchman’s Puzzle: They also really dress up a quilt border. Here’s a nifty little quilt that uses them for both the center and one of the borders. A…

One of my favorite thrift shops is a little hole-in-the-wall place way out in a small country town near the Pacific Ocean. I drop in there on the way out to the beach, where I walk my dog and stare out to sea while the waves roll in. I stopped in at the thrift shop…

I’ve been making a real effort to reduce the size of my fabric collection so that it all fits into the bookshelves where I store it in my sewing room. Right now I’m concentrating on the fat quarters. Over the years I’ve bought a lot of them because they’re just too cute to resist. Now…

I found this sweet red-and-white Friendship Star block a couple of days ago in a pile of the blocks I inherited from a longtime quilter.  Two things set  this block apart from the basic Friendship Star (tutorial here):  or this easy variation: The contrasting triangles in the four corners of the block. The quarter-square triangle in…