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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 … […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve been procrastinating for a week on blogging about this block, because, frankly, it’s a pretty boring block. There’s just not that much to say about it. It’s got a […]
