The Controlled Chaos
While the fabric print used for this block is small, it is semi-directional. I had not really thought through how A) there were pieces of the print fabric adjacent to […]
Blocks
The Inconsistent Angles
The rotary instructions for this block were made more complicated by the Dear Jane software, which seems to think some of the angles on these pieces are 46 degrees instead […]
The Last of a Dying Breed
This is one of the few remaining beginner blocks. I think I only have three more left, and I like to save them for special occasions. They often get slipped […]
The Geometric Jigsaw
It seemed like there ought to be a way to simplify the piecing on this one, but I couldn’t figure it out. So, I just stuck with assembling all the […]
The Things That Are Really Needed
My goal was to do one blog article per day until I got caught up, but you may have noticed that there was no blog article yesterday. It turned out that […]
The Bleeding Edge
There are so many options for piecing this one, and I was taking it to retreat, so I wanted to have all viable options open to me when I got […]
The Not-So-Sticky Situation
I toyed with using Avery labels on this square block, because the pieces were so darn small. But I’d just finished a triangle block that took several weeks, and knew […]
The Lessons Already Learned
Yet another block where everyone seems to construct it differently … the Dear Jane software even designed their patterns for piecing the entire block, with curved piecing around the melon shapes […]
The Surprise Candidate
With this block, I continued trying to find a home for the boring cream fabric I opted not to use in Block B9. Except that I didn’t like the fabric here […]
The Swirls Upon Swirls
I was in a rush to finish one more block for my June goals. So naturally I picked an advanced difficulty one. This one had tan swirl fabric pieces adjoining […]
The Fabrics That Got Away
As my readers are well aware, I hate appliqué, but there wasn’t really another way to do this block, so I cut out the pieces and got started. For a […]
The Windowpanes
I had decided that I had definitely picked out all the fabrics I was going to use for this quilt, and I was going to stop adding more. But I […]