The Ghost of Quilt Blocks Past
So many mistakes of the past came back to haunt me in this batch of sashing. It was problematic from beginning to end. It started with sashing Block H1. This […]
The Falling Leaves
I had originally planned to do this triangle block later (let’s face it, I was not looking forward to the appliqué). But as I waited for the leaves to fall […]
The Four Score and a Dozen Logs
It’s been a long while since I got out my QuiltCut2 (I think it was when I was cutting out binding strips for the rainbow quilt), but I thought it […]
The Waste Management
I don’t like to waste any of my precious time at quilting retreat, so this block was done from start to finish on the third and final day. But the […]
The Devoted Followers
It turns out sashing is a little bit boring to do at retreat (and also everywhere else), but I’m at a point where I need to be alternating between block […]
The Countable Y-Seams
In this triangle block, I’m using one of three new green fabrics I found at the scrap extravaganza! Since I worked on this block on the first day of fall […]
The Time Trials
I don’t know what I was thinking, tackling the assembly of a triangle border row right after wrapping up one of the big sashing segments, which could be attached to […]
The Vibrant Fabric
In between my last big chunk of sashing and my next big chunk of sashing (forthcoming), I wanted to sneak in a quick block, and this one seemed to fit the bill. […]
The Sashing Slog
This started out as a simple task of sashing four blocks together, but then those four could be attached to four other groups of four to form a larger segment […]
The Marking Miss
This block looks complicated, but once you sew those little triangles onto the kite shapes to make pie wedges, it’s essentially just a slightly rotated pinwheel block. The biggest challenge […]
The Boring Bit of Sashing
I’ve been working really hard to catch up on my blogging, but I can’t seem to get this article out the door. The problem is, there’s absolutely nothing interesting to […]
The Risqué Appliqué
Perhaps genteel ladies didn’t acknowledge cleavage in the 1860s, so Jane meant the piece at the base of this block to represent something less risqué. But I can’t unsee it. […]