The Melons
The appliqué shapes in this series of blocks are called melons. I’ve never understood this; wouldn’t melon shapes be spherical, or at least elliptical? If we’re talking about a slice of […]
Blocks
The Apocryphal Roasting Pan
Before I started this block, I had all kinds of ideas of what I was going to write about. I’d considered talking about how this was an appliqué diamond rematch, […]
The Fussy Cutting
I made such a great start on this block, getting it cut out and mostly assembled over the course of a couple of days off work. By the end of a […]
The Decisions
All the blocks in the quilt are rated at a skill level of beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Up to this point, I’ve been doing all beginner blocks. This seemed like […]
The X’s and O’s
Between being sick and taking on extra responsibilities at work, my Dear Paulette posting productivity has really gone downhill in the last few months. I went from 3-4 posts per […]
The Appliqué
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before how much I hate appliqué. So, I’ll tell you now that I really hate appliqué. To illustrate how much I hate appliqué, here […]
The Epiphany
You might remember me lamenting about getting the seam allowances right in my earlier post: The Scant Quarter Inch. The latest block I completed has 49 pieces, and a whopping 48 […]
The Alien
As planned, I went for something totally different with this block … a color I hadn’t done for a while, a pattern I hadn’t done (although it was a combo […]
The Randomness
Randomness is a word my teenage daughter uses a lot. I’m not 100% convinced it’s a real word (my spellchecker certainly doesn’t think so), but it definitely conveys what I […]
The Rematch
After the easy diamond in the square block, I was ready to tackle another one of those complicated nine-patch blocks again. In addition to the rematch challenge of four striped […]
The Change of Pace
After the challenge of the last block, I definitely needed a change of pace. So, I opted to tackle a diamond in the square block. In my 18 years of quilting, […]
The Scant Quarter Inch
This is the first block where I’m sewing pieced squares to plain squares. The problem with that is if any of the seams are slightly off in the pieced square, it ends […]