With the release of my Patchwork + Make class this week I'm on the topic of the beginner quilter. I get quite a bit of questions in my inbox from beginners and it's almost always the same ones, so I thought I'd take a moment today and just answer a few basic questions and then move on to the tips I've been collecting. I won't be teaching anything today, just pointing you into the ...
beginner friendly quilts
Carolina Mingle Quilt – #3 – Quilt Reveal
I love, love, love doing quilt alongs with y'all. It really motivates me to stay on track and get things finished. I was also crazy inspired by these fabrics. I'm normally not into red, but the navy owned me to the bone and I loved the way the red roses popped from everywhere. Today, I'm showing you my third Carolina Mingle ...
The Migration Quilt – #3 – quilt reveal
I've broken free of my usual boundaries. My usual boundaries, of course, being my love for low volume backgrounds. This was not free will. This is a custom quilt where I was told what background to use. While I'd prefer to see this quilt with my usual background, it's also nice to move out of one's way and try something different. I love the way those Liberty "butterflies" pop out ...
The Basketweave Quilt – Quilt Reveal
I got to playing around with my scraps and a new Basketweave quilt is what became of that time. This is my second Basketweave, the first precedes the blog, but it wasn't pretty. This one is pretty, but something is still not right. Apparently, I didn't care. As you can see I finished it. But I've got some ideas to make this better. Product Spotlight Flutter Cotton and ...
The Landslide Quilt #2 – Pattern Release + Quilt Reveal
Hello, lovelies! Today is the official release OOOOOOF.... Landslide quilt! Can you tell I'm excited? I'm beyond happy with this quilt, with the process, with my yummy collection of low volume, with patchwork, with making quilts, oh my goodness, I'm just happy with everything. And maybe a bit overwhelmed. Ha! I wanted to get a post up before ...
Good Girl quilt #2 ( quilt reveal ) + Get a quilt done in a weekend
Hey sweet friends! A week or so ago I tested one of my own patterns to be sure that YES, it can be completely finished up in a weekend. Well, at least the throw size can. I'm showing off my second version of my Good Girl quilt. This time is luscious plums, purples and lavenders. Find the pattern here. For this quilt, I made the lap throw size once again. I ...
The Morning Sun Quilt Along – Month 4
I looooooooovvvvve this quilt. Really, really. I'm also loving have to do just one pattern a month. That really takes the pressure off of always hurrying around and making stuff. This quilt along is so chill. This is our 4th pattern. We are adding the little arrowheads between the rows, plus stitching all the rows together for four big chunks of this quilt. Bam! Have a look at all ...
Me + Low Volumes = LOVE – Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt #2 ( quilt reveal )
I was so ridiculously pleased to get to visit this quilt again. For those of you who are newer around here, Little Miss Sawtooth was a quilt along I did late summer of 2017. It was meant to practice flying geese units, but also learn how to change up quilt blocks to make them your own. You can read more about the quilt along here. So let's go put on a pot of tea, sit and sip, and gush ...
The Morning Sun Quilt Along – Month 3
There are already so many gorgeous Morning Sun quilts being made on Instagram! I'm squealing over all of them. Take a look here. I love how laid back and easy going this quilt along is going. You get a whole month to complete the blocks. This month, April, I think will be the most difficult with 32 blocks of double half square triangles. It's a lot of HSTs to square up and a lot of lines ...
The Good Girl Quilt ( quilt reveal ) + a Survey
Oh, this quilt! I'm really digging it. I'm not sure if it was just the colors chosen that really suit my style, the abundance of low volume which I know you know I'm into, the incredible beauty of all those blue AGF fabrics or just the simplicity of it, but I'm going to put this down as one of my personal favorite makes. And I believe it's all those things that I love coming ...