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 […]
Triangles
The Pattern Puzzle
Printing out the pattern pieces for these triangle blocks from the Dear Jane software is always an adventure. You have to remember to change the size setting before printing, because […]
The Broken Hearts
I’d been saving this heart block for February, thinking it would be appropriate for the month with Valentine’s Day. But I’m not exactly feeling the love for a block that […]
The Patternmaker
This was a “mixed media” block of sorts, at least as far as the pattern pieces were concerned. The top part of the triangle has foundation piecing patterns to print out. […]
The Many Milestones
With a virtual mini-retreat earlier this month, I’ve stacked up all kinds of completed blocks to blog about. And yet, here it is the last day of November, and I’m […]
The Runway
I’m kicking myself now for using the title “The Perspective” for my last blog article, since it seems like the perfect title for this block with a narrowing stripe of […]
The Spatula
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 […]
The Right Track
While making this triangle block, I had so many flashbacks to my first triangle (with diagonal stripes), remembering just how easy it is to get off track with these triangle […]
The Hood Ornament
To me, this block definitely looks like a hood ornament on a big 1970s car. Once upon a time I owned one of those big 70s cars, complete with hood […]
The Hand-Crafted Treasures
I started work on this triangle while I was visiting family last month. I hadn’t seen my Mom in about a year, and many of the aunts, uncles, and cousins […]
The 99 Problems
The title for this article popped into my head when I realized that this is block number 126 of 225 in my Dear Jane quilting journey. This means that, now […]
The Volcano
It seems appropriate, on this 41st anniversary of Mt. St. Helens erupting, to write about this triangle block … this cone-shaped vessel of chaos. How did this innocent quilt block […]