Category: Quilts in Progress

Isn't this a "sea" of yumminess?  The fabric line is Neptune by Tula Pink.  Love these indigo, aqua, algae green and coral colors.  And the prints are so whimsical, with their Under the Deep Blue Sea theme.  There are submarines, life savers, swimming turtles, scales, tortoise shells, swirly waves and little anchors.  So darn cute–but […]

  I know I was just talking about Flying Geese blocks in my post yesterday, but these geese are for a different project.  I had two half days to sew over the weekend, and divided my time between two UFOs that have been calling out to me.  I know, Prairie Paisley was crying out plaintively for […]

Months ago (never mind how many…) I started a making a quilt that I had been planning in my mind for a year or more.  I knew the pattern I would use would be Toulouse, a wonderful offering by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co.  Carrie made her quilt in a Christmas fabric collection that was current […]

This past weekend, I got one more border around the Summer Wind quilt top.  This pattern begins with a large center star medallion, and you add progressive borders until the quilt is as big as you want it.  This finishes at around 72 inches, I believe, but if I decide to add a final border […]

Remember the fabric Wuthering Heights by 3 Sisters for Moda that came out a couple of years ago?  I had an entire bundle of it that was totally neglected because I was procrastinating about cutting into it.  I didn't want to do the same quilt everyone else was making out of this fabric, and I […]

My posting schedule is all goofed up this week.  Reason?  I have been sewing and gallivanting.  Don't you love that word?  Gallivanting?  It perfectly sums up what I have been doing. The quilt blocks you see above are all laid out on the Design Bed.  The pattern is Apple Crisp from Evelyn Sloppy's book Log […]

I worked on two projects while I was at the quilting retreat this past weekend.   The blocks shown in the photo above are from a pattern called Spice Cake by Mary's Cottage Quilts.  The blocks are just a simple snowball block made from a layer cake!  I used a layer cake of Charisma by Chez […]

  What a glorious long weekend the Thanksgiving Holiday was!  I had plenty of time to enjoy all my favorite pastimes–visiting with my family, puttering in the kitchen, reading a good book, going shopping, and spending some time in my sewing room. We usually decorate our house for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving, but never […]

  I have a little trick I'll share with you that makes sewing quilt blocks together easier for me (especially blocks that have a lot of units). I start constructing the block by sewing the first two squares together for each row.  I do not clip my threads so the rows stay connected.  I then […]

I am in the thick of things with the construction of Coventry, that sweet pattern that I am making using the Peace on Earth fabric group.  What did I fail to notice when I launched into the pattern?  The one inch square border!  Not just one, but a double checkerboard border.  Man oh man, I […]