The Puzzling Connection
I’ve just returned from our guild’s quilting retreat, and I’m still in that “not quite ready to unpack and return to reality” phase. I spent a lot of the retreat […]
Blocks
The Photographic Evidence
This was another one of those blocks where I felt uninspired by the fabric I’d chosen, and wanted to find something new to use instead. And this was the color […]
The Odds and Ends
I’m down to single digits of Dear Jane blocks left to do – all the odds and ends – and this block itself feels like a collection of odds and […]
The Nesting Nine-Patches
I took this block on a weekend getaway … I definitely needed something simple, to get away from the ghosts of quilt blocks past in my last sashing segment. This […]
The Waste Management
I don’t like to waste any of my precious time at quilting retreat, so this block was done from start to finish on the third and final day. But the […]
The Vibrant Fabric
In between my last big chunk of sashing and my next big chunk of sashing (forthcoming), I wanted to sneak in a quick block, and this one seemed to fit the bill. […]
The Marking Miss
This block looks complicated, but once you sew those little triangles onto the kite shapes to make pie wedges, it’s essentially just a slightly rotated pinwheel block. The biggest challenge […]
The Bounty of Light Greens
I’ve got several light green blocks left to do, so I’m trying to sprinkle them in periodically. I wouldn’t want to have light green overload! And I felt like this […]
The Curvy Conundrum
I debated with myself at great length over how to assemble this one. It seems like I spent more time deciding what to do than actually doing it. There are two […]
The Official Tally
This block uses fabric with little tally marks on it, which is appropriate because I’m tallying up the few blocks remaining in this project – I’m nearing the end. The block was […]
The Even Tinier Triangles
I’ve been super productive on this quilt for the last couple of months, and I kept pushing this block back so I could use it for the month of tiny […]
The Awkward Appliqué
Reverse appliqué seemed like the way to go on this block, but also felt like it would be awkward to do on such a small background piece … and yet […]