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 […]
My first attempt at this triangular block started in late October, almost 3 months ago. It looked pretty easy (just diagonal stripes), so I thought I’d knock it out quickly […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You might remember me lamenting about getting the seam allowances right in my earlier post: The Scant Quarter Inch. The latest block I completed has 49 pieces, and a whopping 48 […]
As planned, I went for something totally different with this block … a color I hadn’t done for a while, a pattern I hadn’t done (although it was a combo […]
The ironing ban has been lifted for a week now, but it took me a little longer than anticipated to get started. Last weekend, I washed and ironed most of […]
