Do you ever have a piece of fabric you’d love to use for a quilt backing, but it isn’t quite big enough to cover the whole area of the quilt? That’s the problem I ran into with this little baby quilt (38″ x 38″). I had a large scrap piece of flannel that would be…
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…
Now that I’ve finished piecing the string parts of the blocks for my Roman Stripes quilt, it’s time to choose the fabric for the other half of the blocks. I wanted to pay homage to the Roman Stripe pattern’s Amish heritage (as much as a quilter from non-traditional Northern California can!) by observing the following…
Which are You — Kitchen Sinker or Color Coordinator? Many scrap quilters use the “kitchen sink” approach when they piece together scrappy quilts and just pull out scraps of whatever color or pattern happen to be on the top of the scrap bin. This scrappy quilt in progress is a good example of this style:This…