This last weekend I had a chance to visit one of my sisters. My husband and I had tickets to a play in the City, and we spent the night at my sister's place on Saturday night. Sunday morning my sister and her husband took me to a local garden nursery that was simply amazing. […]
Several people asked me about the pattern for the plate blocks. I had started this project quite a few years ago, using an old Gai Perry book, "Quilted Gems". That is where the idea came from anyway. I did not at all use the method Gai did in her book. She used an octagon template […]
Woo Hoo! Kaleidoscope is all sewn together. All that is left is to add a containment border and an outer border. I am so relieved that this quilt came together after all. I had so much fun making it. I will share my thoughts on two methods for making Kaleidoscope blocks later this week. My […]
All my Kaleidoscope blocks have been trimmed down to 5 1/2 inches, everything lines up perfectly, I can see the secondary circular pattern emerging, and I think it is safe to say this endangered quilt has been saved! Trimming things makes the quilt smaller, obviously, so I plan to add at least two, maybe four […]
Thank you Thank you Thank you I love the blogging community. Truly, I thought I had wasted all my beautiful Denyse Schmidt fabric and a lot of time by not trimming correctly while making my Kaleidoscope blocks. So many of you took the time to really look at the mess my blocks were and give […]
I have had an epic failure in my recent Kaleidoscope quilt project. I mentioned that my seams didn't want to line up when I sewed the first two blocks together. Well, it wasn't just those two blocks. Something had gone massively wrong in my cutting. There are two blocks, one with eight pieces, the other […]
We are having a couple of dinner guests this week, and I felt like I needed to spruce up the spring decorations a bit. I spent Monday planting some hanging baskets for the back porch, and doing a couple of little vignettes for the front doors and the front porch. I found the little "lunch […]
Happy blocks are done. Once I made 60 or 70 of them they started to come together. No, actually, it wasn't that bad, quite. I do like the lively look of the colors and design, and think it should be a fun quilt once the blocks are sewn together. Man, did I ever use a […]
The sewing room is pretty much of a disaster right now because I am experimenting with the Kaleidoscope blocks. I have sure made a number of blocks wrong! I keep trimming off the corners that I am supposed to attach the corner squares to. I want my 12 piece blocks with the corner squares to […]
Oh dear. I have been down for the count the past couple of days for sure. Are any of you familiar with the objects pictured above? They are commonly prescribed asthma drugs. The round one on the left is called Advair. There are no generic versions available (there used to be, but the FDA […]
About Me
Hello, I’m Nicole, an enthusiastic quilter and fabric lover. This blog is mainly about my quilting journey, but I share some of my other interests as well, which include reading, cooking, decorating, lifestyle, and my family. When I am not quilting, I am reading, and will share monthly book reviews in this space. I love to hear back from my followers and enjoy getting to know you.
