The Quilting Prescription
After an advanced block and an advanced triangle one after the other, doing a super simple beginner block was just what the doctor ordered. For a change, I picked out a […]
Blocks
The Pizzelle
I cut out the pieces for this block on the last day of retreat and marked all the stitching lines: Then I spent a lot of time (way more than […]
The Workout
The construction of this block ended up being quite a mental workout, relying on all my pattern drafting skills and stitching tricks of the trade to make it happen. But […]
The Disoriented Geese
This one went together quickly, which was great, after it took me until February 34th to finish my overly-ambitious February quilting goals. Perhaps a 47-piece block and sashing an entire […]
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 […]
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 […]