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Doll Swap by Humble Quilts
For many years, Lori at Humble Quilts has been organizing Doll Swaps. This year I almost missed it, and that would have been a shame. Getting in right under the wire meant that my name went to Liz B....
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Step by Step String Block
I've been asked how to make the string blocks that I used in my Zig Zag quilt I showed last week. Photo step by step as follows. Here is the finished block. Choose what size you want your block to be...
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Color Collective 6 Pointed Stars
This post could also be titled "Five Star Review" for Sewtopia and their 6 month Color Collective. For six months you will receive a bundle of solids along with a pattern by Tara Faughnan. The one I'm...
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String Flowers Revisited
String Flowers started to come together in a Gwen Marston workshop and ended up being published in American Patchwork and Quilting. This class was titled as Strings, so I didn't bother to read any the...
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My Next Big Quilt
Will I ever finish this quilt? I can only say I have a partner who is very prolific (inspired_by_fiber is on IG) and I'm hoping that we can keep each other motivated and on schedule. This is Sarah's...
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To Give and To Recieve Swap Block
The latest issue of American Patchwork & Quilting is hitting the newsstands and mailboxes this week. I'm sure subscribers are anticipating this new issue, especially considering the times we are...
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Simply Scraps
This whole quilt has been made with left over blocks and scraps. Even the batting was cobbled together from leftover pieces. The fabric for the sashing and binding was cut from pieces in my fabric bin...
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A Quick Note
It's coming on the first of November, the month where we celebrate Thanksgiving. Through all these trying times, this might be a good time to reflect back on 2020 and look for the things that we can...
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Going Full Circle
The name of this pattern is perfect for these times. We have gone from going 90 mph to the mindset of "I'll make do" to "I can't wait to get out and do things again". Pattern/workshop is from Sarah...
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The Blue House on the Corner
The blocks for this quilt were pieced during my quarantine in Sept 2020 The pattern for this house block is from the October 2020 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. My initial idea was to make...
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A little Green for St. Patricks Day
This beautiful quilt arrived at my studio a few weeks ago and after a few back and forth texts with the maker, we finalized this as the quilting motifs. Pattern is Steam Punk by Jen Kingwell, and it...
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Big and Bold Appliqued Quilt
This customer quilt (thank you JT) was a delight to machine quilt. Lots of open spaces of solid fabrics for the quilting to show up, a customer who drew out motifs and designs to get me jump started...
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Shortbread Cookies
This post is a copy and paste from several years ago. I thought maybe since there are a lot of new IG followers, some might make their way over to grab this recipe. It's the big day, the first...
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Sarah's Revival Update
It's been quite some time since I've updated this long term project. Sarahs Revival by the late Sue Garmon. Her patterns are all available at Come Quilt and this pattern can be found HERE. The good...
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Playing with Hexagons
This first pattern is from Brigette Giblin and you can purchase it as a download HERE. I would put it in the catagory of Advanced Beginner. Her pattern writing could have been a bit better, but if...
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Journey to Camelot
This pattern was featured in Quiltmania 111 - 114 in 2016. Yes, I'm late to the party, but since there is no schedule on starting a new quilt, I'm OK with this. The pattern caught my eye after I saw...
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Zagged Instead of Zigged
Outback Wife fabrics were quite a rage back when life was different. I had seen several makes from the first collection and when the second grouping was released, I jumped on a 1/2 yard stack of all...
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Travel Stitching aka Camelot Update
Third time is the charm. We have cancelled this vacation twice and we finally got to Maui last Sunday at 10 PM. It was a long day as our first leg of the trip started with us being fogged in at our...
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Back Basting Applique Basic Tutorial
I love applique. The techniques I use vary from project to project, but I have a lot of tricks in my applique tool box. For all the teachers and other quilters who have shared their methods and...
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Blue Baskets 2.0
From the minute I saw this top, I knew it was one that I just had to make. Like RIGHT NOW, and I'm so glad that I did. This was created by Lori DeJarnatt of Humble Quilts and is featured on pg 53 in...
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NW Washington Fair Quilts
Here are 12 quilts from the NW Wa fair held in Lynden WA every summer. The last two are mine and it was great to finally be able to have these two pieces hang for public viewing. If you haven't...
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Workshop Sketchings
Last month I took the plunge and signed up for Bethanne Nemesh's Fiesta Feathers workshop. As we all know, there hasn't been opportunities for in person workshops and my one effort with an online...
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Long Term Projects Part 1
I was chatting with another quilter about how to keep the mojo going on these long term projects, and thought it would be a good thing to blog about. Some quilters literally crank out tops at a rate...
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Long Term Projects Part 2
Each type of project gets a little different path of production. This post will explain how I look at fusible machine applique (FMA). As much as I love hand applique, this style of quilting holds a...
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Long Term Projects Number 3
Sarah's RevivalNothing says "long term" like a Sue Garman pattern. You can read previous posts here and here.If you haven't read previous posts, here is a very short recap. I started this project in...
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