Colorful quilts

Looking back on things, I chose the perfect time to make a scrappy quilt. Sewing together 2 1/2" squares in a somewhat random way is really mindless. I didn't have to concentrate on anything, really. I went back and forth on what to do with the borders of this quilt and after realizing that I didn't have enough of the white fabric to do what I had in mind, I decided to add three more rows of the scrappy squares. I love it!! There are so many fun fabrics in this quilt and some go way back to…

Fast Track quilt pattern by Andy Knowlton of A Bright Corner - great for using precuts or fat quarters

Today, I would have been greeting Laura and Charlotte, just a couple of my students, to my Flutter class at the Garden of Quilts event but as you are aware, there are no classes, lectures, demos or trunk shows this year (above picture taken at LAST year's Garden of Quilts event). Flutter is such a fun, happy and lively design that we patterned with Hidden Shoofly as part of our TWO Designs in ONE Pattern concept!! Do you want to know why? If you look closely at the Flutter block, you'll see…

Years ago I posted what I was doing with strips of 1" wide fabric and how I was putting it together to make string scrap quilt of 8-1/2" blocks. (See link.) Then about a year later, as I was going through the blocks I had made, I found that some of the blocks I had made were not as wide as they should have been. (See link.) Turned out my 1/4" foot made a generous 1/4" (read, "not a quarter inch") and as I unpicked a good chunk of what I had done and contemplated my plan, I made a slight…

Half Square Triangles (HSTs) are one of my favorite patchwork units, and I have made a number of quilts with just Half Square Triangles in the past. This quilt however is surprisingly my first HST qui

I seem to have finally gotten over my impulsive quilt starting phase and am now feeling motivated to finish up some projects. So that means a lot of my design walls are empty right now. So I spent a

How is everyone coming with their Joyful Stitcher project? I’m curious to hear where everyone is at. I am sewing on mine much faster than I am blogging on it, but the next blog posts should…

Pictures - All from the scrap pile..... - I am definitely a scrap quilter and saver of scraps of all sizes... usually nothing less than an inch tho, thats pretty much my limit.... the colored strips finishes at 1/2 inch... I basically used the leftover scraps when i cut down my strip blocks that i made using phone book

Film At Five Quilt The Film At Five Quilt designed by Deanna from Wedding Dress Blue, The Tutorial is available for free. Full Post: Film At Five Quilt Tutorial

Yes, I'm still playing around and tinkering with string blocks - if you haven't seen it - check out my other string block post here: String Blocks and More! One of the quilt layouts I had drawn up was to arrange the string blocks in a pole twist (twisted ribbon) style quilt. This quilt is essentially made with 90 String Block Half Square Triangles. With a 9 HST across x 10 HST down, three borders: the quilt measures about 84" x 91". UPDATE: Don't forget to go to the bottom of this post to…