As you may know (especially from Instagram- bealeequilter) I’ve been cutting into my blue scraps and cut enough to make 20 blocks I also added scraps of white for the other half of the block, some are solid white, some are white print, it didn’t matter! I’ve shown a teaser photo too of the …
Blue and White log cabin top and selvedge mug rug Read More »
I am SEW excited to share this quilt with you! It’s in McCall’s Quilting March / April 2020 This quilt is called “Eve” When I got an email about the theme of the magazine issue being “Women’s history month” I thought of “Eve” right away. She’s the first woman in the world, she started it …
I have a quilt in McCall’s quilting again, it’s about the first woman, EVE! Read More »
I’ve been avoiding doing tutorials/videos for EQ8 as I couldn’t figure out how to easily do screenshots and copy paste them into a blog post without doing a whole lot of work, and videos require a quiet house and good internet, which I don’t have either- well hopefully in a few months we’ll have better …
This week’s block is Illinois It’s a block I really LIKE a lot and last year I made a table runner with this block The block this week is still 12″ finished and uses the 8″ QUBE set, dies #3,4,5,6 With Red Cut a 5.5″ WOF and die shape #4 cut (16) triangles, you’ll need …
Have you checked these sales yet? I came across Connecting threads’ PINK AND RED sale yesterday and it’s going on until Valentine’s day I already stocked up on a few things from this sale! (plus other things I needed) And Accuquilt has a sale too and free shipping for any order over $35 with the …
I’ve shown teasers on instagram and facebook about this quilt in the making, it was fun to just use scraps and sew for fun! I think it all started with the grey and white string quilt I made recently here and still my grey scrap bin was still overflowing, my yellow was pretty low, but …
This week the block is Texas! Here’s some facts about the Lone Star state Entered Union (rank): Dec. 29, 1845 (28) Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies. The armadillo is the official state mammal. The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to …
This cute Churn dash quilt is done! I was inspired by my “Mother of Pearl” pattern but didn’t use the Accuquilt Churn dash die, instead I used the 6″ QUBE set so the blocks finish at 9″ but you can of course use any QUBE set. I had this cute FQ set in turquoise/teal but …
This weekend Solveig and I went to a quilt market/show whatever it’s called in a town near us (sorry about the blurry picture) it was lots of vendors and pretty quilts to look at, but then almost every vendor had notes about not taking pictures unless you were buying the pattern…. and really it just …
Are you ready to bust out the 8″ QUBE set for the next several blocks? The QUBE sets are designed around a 4×4 grid or even a 2×2 grid, but when you think outside the QUBE or box and think of a 3×3 or 6×6 grid, then there’s SEW many more options! (enough puns?) The …