The Web
After trying the new label-based technique on my last block, it felt good to be back to plain old hand piecing again. When I started this block, I was planning […]
Blocks
The Bonnie Hunter Experience
Bonnie Hunter visited my quilt guild to give a lecture earlier this week. You can read all about the visit in her blog: https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2018/05/on-wings-to-washington.html I’d been looking forward to her lecture for months. She […]
The Piece Count
I had intended to do one more block with curved pieces, but now that I’m no longer doing multiple similar blocks in an arty series, I want to mix it up […]
The Meaningful Middle
This block sits smack in the exact middle of the quilt, and Paulette had chosen a fabric for this block that clearly felt meaningful for her: Unfortunately I only have one square inch […]
The Seam Eliminator
This block was created at a quilting retreat last weekend, and as usual, I wasn’t prepared. I had to work the day before, I was battling a bad cold … […]
The Alignment
Just like with the Victorian Camo block, I once again find myself working with a fabric that I probably wouldn’t have chosen and am not sure how to deal with […]
The 15-Minute Block
My last block took me way longer than it should have to finish. At one point, I had two seams left to sew, but I put off working on it […]
The Cheater
The green fabric in this block had a surprising source: This kind of fabric is called “cheater fabric” by some quilters. The fabric is preprinted to look like a patchwork design, so […]
The Groundhog Block
I finished this block on Groundhog Day, and a small part of me worried that when I woke up the next morning, it would be Groundhog Day again and I’d have to […]
The Time Warp Block
Ah, the holidays! That time of year where none of one’s regular activities seem to get done. Case in point: this block, which I embarrassingly started cutting out pieces for […]
The Triangle Within a Triangle
This block was chock full of triangles, and in some cases, smaller triangles were sewn together to create bigger triangles. It reminds me of those count the squares games, where everyone always […]
The Rogue Piecer
Last week, I packed away the projects I was putting on the back burner, and it felt like a quilting weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Without all that […]