The Surprise Candidate
With this block, I continued trying to find a home for the boring cream fabric I opted not to use in Block B9. Except that I didn’t like the fabric here […]
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The Fabrics That Got Away
As my readers are well aware, I hate appliqué, but there wasn’t really another way to do this block, so I cut out the pieces and got started. For a […]
The Packed Suitcase
I worked on this triangle block during a weekend getaway in May. I’d traveled so light for retreat the previous month, bringing the smallest amount of fabric imaginable for three […]
The Windowpanes
I had decided that I had definitely picked out all the fabrics I was going to use for this quilt, and I was going to stop adding more. But I […]
The Dots to Connect
I’ve wanted to use this dots fabric since I first laid eyes on it, and I felt like this was a perfect block for it. I’d imagined having more than […]
The Circling Birds
This was the block I’d been stewing about how to construct at the end of March. I decided that once we were at the start of a fresh month (April), […]
The Scant Stripes
My friend Kathleen gave me a very small piece of this striped fabric, where the colors are just perfect for my quilt. The idea was to fussy cut the fabric […]
The Other February Holiday
I cut out the pieces for this about a week before Valentine’s Day, in hopes of a timely finish. But of course I’m so behind on my blogging that you’re […]
The Non-Cheater
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Dear Jane quilts where the quilter had used more than two fabrics (one background and one flashy) per block. This is a concept […]
The Over-Under Set
I’ve been splitting each set of four sashed blocks across two months. Usually I complete the bottom two in the sashing set first, and then in the following month I […]
The Thoroughly Modern Block
Until I took a close look, I thought all the triangles in this block were right triangles. But it turns out that some of the triangles used different angles, giving […]
The Unfussy Cut
After a recent block where fussy cutting proved to be a challenge, I was a little worried about the challenge this block would present. It had the same issue as […]