I am happy to announce that I’ll be teaching an intro to Foundation piecing class at Capital sew and quilt in cary nc You’ll be making your own version of this cute table runner! 13″ x 37″ (I originally called it Christmas table runner but it doesn’t have to be in Christmas fabrics as you …
This month’s challenge with Island Batik is paper piecing, it can be English paper piecing, or Foundation piecing. I showed one EPP project already here But then I wanted to show some FPP too! Here’s how I made it First I printed the blocks and cut them out, then the directions also show how to …
As you may notice, I’ve been on a roll to finish projects! I finally finished this blue and grey strip quilt where I foundation pieces the strips randomly, then cut the triangles in grey with Accuquilt dies- and also their strip dies for the borders. I blogged about it here I quilted a pointy swirl …
When this month’s theme was announced, I knew what I would do- take the word “pillow” lightly… You know me, what else is a pillow but SMALLER?? PINCUSHIONS! I make lots of pincushions!! So here’s the first two for this month’s theme! I already showed the hummingbird one as it was for my pincushion swap …
It seemed like I sparked some curiosity and questions about “phone book” quilts in my last post… It’s really just foundation blocks. By sewing the strips to paper it sets it better and prevents distortion because not every strip is straight, some are on the bias etc… I “could” have sewn pieces together without the …
The phonebook quilt has been started! the phonebook I got in the mail was very small and skinny, but that’s ok. I looked for phonebook quilts and found one on quiltville (couldn’t pin it) My measurements are not quite like hers, as my phone book was smaller, I ripped out pages carefully and cut them …
Happy Valentine’s day! The theme for Island Batik ambassadors for February is Mini LOVE, I really really wanted to be able to post something on Valentine’s so before my new box got here I dug out any pink and purple and white fabrics I had leftover from earlier projects. I designed this in EQ8 (already …
Remember how I showed this charm pack from CT and I printed out these foundation blocks and cut and sorted the charms then I sewed them into the blocks with an orange/brown fabric on the outer part I laid them out on my design wall, as you may notice I alternated having a light and …
The other day I just FELT like doing some foundation paper piecing!! Do you ever feel like that? And.. I wanted to use this fall charm pack from CT, so I found this simple block in EQ and printed enough to fit the charm pieces I’m going to write a pattern for it, I used …
Most often I start a project by sketching it out in EQ and this time is no exception. This was my general idea… If you want a PDF of the 4” pineapple block, click here I then started off with the layer cake from Island Batik which I had already washed and I only wanted …