The Virtual Reality
It seems like most of my quilt-related activities have been cancelled due to the pandemic. I missed out on retreat last month, which I’m pretty sad about, but I’ve still […]
Supplies
The Improvised Tools
I had originally planned to do a square block before tackling this one, but I was going to be on the road a week later and triangles are harder to […]
The Shiny New Tools
I’ve agreed to teach a half-day hand piecing class at my guild’s day camp in a couple of months. I’ve taught hand quilting before, and while that was somewhat nerve-wracking, […]
The Big Difficulty
I think this may be the most difficult block I’ve done yet. As I planned which fabrics to use for which blocks, I tried to match the scale of the […]
The Intrepid Traveler
I started this block sitting in the waiting area at McCarran International Airport, thanks to thick fog in another city delaying my plane’s arrival. This is exactly why I always like […]
The Sticky Solution
I’m trying out a new technique suggested by Linda C. in the Dear Jane Quilting Group on Facebook. When I struggled so much to get my first triangular block into a […]
The Bonnie Hunter Experience
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 […]
The Attitude Adjustment
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 […]
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 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 […]