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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since I want to sash together the 5×5 grid of blocks in the center of the quilt next, I’ve been focusing on completing those blocks lately. And I guess Jane […]
Now we’ve come full circle and I’m already back to curved piecing again. Is it too soon, after the storm cloud that was block G5? At least it seems like […]
Overall, it’s pretty exciting to finally be stitching some of the blocks together, but some of those blocks go together more smoothly than others. In this particular set of four blocks, two […]
When my Mom’s friend Val passed away, Mom went to her estate sale and bought her spatula. It was a pretty nice spatula, with a little lip on it that […]
I love this leaf print, but it’s not exactly the kind of fabric they had available during the Civil War. Initially, the decision about whether or not to use it was made […]
When I got this lovely star fabric from my friend Lisa, I knew I wanted to use it for the corner block with the stars on it. Star fabric for a […]