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 […]
Blocks
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 […]
The Sixth Project
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 […]
The Win
At the end of my last post, I promised I was going to do a triangle block next … so you may be confused by the general squareness of the […]
The Homemade Stripes
I thought that the “homemade stripes” in this block (sewing together narrow strips in alternating colors) made it the perfect block to do right now. I’m psyching myself up for my […]
The Pea Pods
When I first saw this quilt block last year, I wondered how I was going to cram so much seam allowance under those narrow pea pod shapes when I appliquéd […]
The Angler
Don’t let the title fool you; this blog post is not about fishing. Instead, it’s about one woman’s very real struggle to cut out accurate 45-degree parallelograms. I was all pleased […]
The Travel Kit
One of the great aspects of hand piecing is how portable it is. A single block doesn’t take up that much space, and you don’t need any bulky equipment (or […]
The Big Four-O
This is the 40th block I’ve completed on this project, and I feel like my actual fortieth birthday was less of a momentous milestone than the quilt block. Forty appears […]