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 […]
Blocks
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 […]
The Block-Choosing Rules
It was nice to have a really simple block for a change. It’s been several complicated blocks in a row, and I was ready for a slam dunk. I cut […]
The Dots to Connect
I’ve wanted to use this dots fabric since I first laid eyes on it, and I felt like this was a perfect block for it. I’d imagined having more than […]
The Design Choices
The early drafts of this article were a lot longer … a jumble of feelings about retreat and family and self-centered fellow quilters. But a common theme emerged: design choices. […]
The Circling Birds
This was the block I’d been stewing about how to construct at the end of March. I decided that once we were at the start of a fresh month (April), […]
The Scant Stripes
My friend Kathleen gave me a very small piece of this striped fabric, where the colors are just perfect for my quilt. The idea was to fussy cut the fabric […]
The Other February Holiday
I cut out the pieces for this about a week before Valentine’s Day, in hopes of a timely finish. But of course I’m so behind on my blogging that you’re […]
The Rulers that Rule
Over the course of this project, I’ve constantly been looking to upgrade my tools. I have gone on quests for new marking pencils, needles (and more needles), pins (and more pins), pressing mats, […]