I signed up for this blog hop and thought I had my plan all ready to go and EARLY, but I’ve never been down to the wire, like I was with this one! I had my idea early enough and cut out pieces early and made the quilt top early even made the backing early! …
Did you see the new dies released by Accuquilt? There’s two dies 16in Featherstar and 8in weathervane I was able to play with the weathervane die and made this pattern for Accuquilt with solids from Michael Miller fabrics Such fun dies and would be a PAIN to rotary cut!! Check out their sale and other …
I just listed a new pattern called Esther’s Courage Skill Level: Experienced Beginner In the Bible in the book of Esther, Esther becomes queen of Persia and wife to King Xerxes. Later she discovers a plot that would have killed all her people and she shows bravery and courage to help stop it. Finished sizes: …
NEW Quilt Pattern Added- Esther’s courage in 4 sizes with more optional sizes Read More »
Did you see the Accuquilt release? a 9″ school house block die! I was able to make this classic Red and White school house quilt for Accuquilt! (I even quilted clouds all over it, I thought that would be very fitting to a row of school houses!) the quilt measures 35″ x 42″ …
I can’t believe we’re done with the blocks (except for the border blocks), I started my quilt in November 2020 and quilted it early 2021, now it’s time to assemble! You can follow along with my method of come up with your own way as it’s not really assembled in rows or columns so there’s …
the LAST block! then next week we’ll start assembling the top!! This is another block that uses the drunkard’s path dies from the old companion set, or you can use templates in the pattern. You’ll need 8 blue #12 shapes, 4 pink #11 shapes and #3 triangles, then 4 white #3 triangles and 8 black …
I have a really fun and easy pattern listed in my shop called Sacrifice the main blocks are crown of thorn blocks Traditionally the Crown of Thorns Block uses a different color in the middle parts of the block and the outer triangles are a lighter version, here it’s all scrappy and fun, even the …
BL191 Sacrifice is a new scrap pattern listed in my shop! Read More »
Do you ever envision a quilt and then when you make it, it wasn’t quite what you expected? I started off with this EQ sketch and waited for just the right fabric to come along. Then recently I bought 1yd of this NC fabric and thought it was neat and would work as the “white” …
I feel in a bit of a rut, I think it’s because we had the excitement of Sonja (and Bjorn’s) birthday party this weekend, then also starting school this week- the homeschool room is just missing a desk but I use this folding table for now, Bjorn leaves for Wingate today too! Dan finished making …
Second to last block!! This block uses the parallelogram shapes, it’s not tricky but just be careful sewing them together. You’ll need 8 EACH of grey, blue, pink and black #7 parallelogram, if you’re using a print, the grey and blue are right side DOWN and black and pink are right side UP. Then 16 …