Category: Quilts in Progress

I spent Saturday playing around with some pretty fabrics by Joel Dewberry (Westminster).  The fun part of these blocks is that the seams do not match up on purpose.  The strips are cut 2 3/4" and 2 1/2", sewn into strip sets, then cut out with the use of a 6 inch square ruler. I’d […]

This is my beginner applique project, a design called "Garden Fence Quilt" from two of my favorite designers, Joanna Figueroa and Lisa Quan of Fig Tree Quilts.  Their booklet Hearth and Home Quilts has a number of great patterns in it, including one called Sew Simple Baskets that is a real favorite of mine (in […]

I am just so proud of myself I could burst.  I have been putting off doing machine applique for YEARS because I thought it was too difficult, and that I could never achieve good results.  Avoiding machine applique even caused me to slave over a simple hand appliqued border for a quilt that took me […]

I went a bit nuts this weekend.  I started two new projects.  I know, I know, you have all heard me vow not to start a single new thing until I actually FINISH something, but, oh well.  Things just got the best of me. The borders for my Return to Sender Christmas quilt stared balefully […]

Jelly Rolls.  If there is anyone out there who doesn’t know what this hot new quilting temptation is, a jelly roll is an entire fabric collection that has been laser cut into 2 1/2" strips, rolled up like a bakery confection and tied with a bow.  Each pack contains one 44" long strip of each […]

A few months ago I bought a darling quilt kit from Cottage Quilts online shop.  They had assembled a beautiful assortment of fabrics from Moda’s Chocolat collection and put them together as a kit to be used along with this sampler quilt book, "Country Gatherings" by Dillard & Glordi.  The book has several different suggestions […]

Sara asked me to help her come up with some prototypes of fast easy projects that would put charm squares to a good use.  She is planning to set up an online shop this summer and wants to create some quilt kits that will appeal to beginning quilters as well as experienced quilters who want […]

I feel positively exhilarated!  Since finishing up a couple of UFOs, I have permitted myself to begin a new project for each completed one.  The newest project I have come up with is inspired by the brand new Yuletide Blessings fabric group (Fig Tree for Moda).  Yummy faded cherry reds and sagey greens combined with […]

As promised, I am posting today about my 32 orphaned Christmas blocks.  These blocks are what are left over from my Return to Sender quilt top after I decided to eliminate them in favor of using mostly blocks with a high degree of contrast in the block fabrics (black/cream, red/cream, green/cream). These leftover blocks are […]

I know, I know.  Christmas isn’t anywhere close.  It’s only May for heaven’s sake.  Still, if I want a Christmas quilt by the holiday season, now is the time to get it made.  If I wait until Fall to get this top to my quilter, it will be touch and go if I will have […]