The Diamond in the Rough
After the last few complicated blocks, it was a relief to do something with simple rotary cutting and easy piecing. This was originally going to be a July block for […]
The Final Frontier
After wandering through the uncharted territory of my first day of post-pandemic retreat, I decided on Day 2 to boldly go where no one has gone before, and make this […]
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 Over-Under Set
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 […]
The Thoroughly Modern Block
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 […]
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 Carbon Dating
As I’m starting to sash blocks together that I’ve made at various points over the last almost-seven years, I’m noticing that I can guess at when I made each block based on […]
The Fan
I had originally planned to do block C10 – something that is for me relatively simple – after the trauma of block G6. I even went so far as to […]
The North Star
For the longest time, this block felt about as unreachable as the North Star. At one point before starting the block, I’d written down “The White Whale” as a possible […]
The Unfussy Quilt
Earlier in the process of sashing together blocks, I was just picking out fabrics for the cornerstones when it was time to sash each block. There was no master plan, […]
The Unfussy Cut
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 […]
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. […]