Category: Quilts in Progress

This is what I am supposed to be working on.  As you see, I haven’t made much progress, beyond fondling the fabric for the first block.  I am participating in the Web Sampler Celebration and need to be getting these 12 blocks of the month going.  The blocks were all designed by Paula Barnes of […]

Lisa of Stashmaster and I both bought the fatquarter bundle called Roman Holiday by Moda.  We emailed back and forth quite a bit, tossing out possible patterns that would be appropriate with this pretty, not too Christmassy fabric collection.  One detail we decided was that since the collection was released as a Holiday group, the […]

I have met my goal to finish a project or two before permitting myself to get started on anything new.  With Jelly Bellies, Cupcake and my Chocolate Sampler at the quilter’s, I am free to begin something fresh.  In anticipation of this day, for a couple of months now, I have had the beautiful Roman […]

I’d like to introduce you to my version of Cupcake, the Carrie Nelson Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company pattern Lisa and I were given when we took Carrie’s class at The Buggy Barn this August.  Carrie’s version was blue where mine is brown.  The pattern is not released yet, but my understanding is that when it […]

Thanks for indulging me in my reminiscing about my family’s annual Halloween party.  It has been fun sharing pictures with you, and I will have more over the next week or so, but thought I should get a few more quilty posts out here. Despite my preoccupation with my new puppy, I actually have been […]

Since my dear son in law needed to use our guest room, the bed in which, I was using as a place to lay out my quilt blocks had to be cleared off.  I took your advice and so you can see my stack of a couple hundred snowball blocks and pieced triangles, all stacked […]

I am making hundreds of Snowball blocks for the Miss Rosie quilt pattern "Jelly Bellies".  As you probably know, a common technique that is used when constructing this block, is to sew a square diagonally across the four corners of a larger block.  The excess fabric then needs to be trimmed away to eliminate bulk.  […]

These are some of the fabrics in our Buggy Barn/Carrie Nelson class kit for the quilt she thinks she is going to call "Cupcake".  She originally planned to name it "Drumbeat" (I can’t remember why–something about marching to a different drummer) and her friends told her that was a terrible name and that she should […]

For my Carrie Nelson class project "Jellystone", I have been making half square triangles.  A lot of them.  Around 300 to be exact.  The method we used in class was the traditional way of drawing a line from corner to corner on a light background square, sewing a quarter inch on each side of the […]

I needed to put the binding on my early fall quilt, but since it had been a year since I finished the thing, I couldn’t find the fabric I had set aside to use for the binding.  I have no clue why I procrastinate so much when it comes to sewing on the bindings to […]