Hello sweet friends! If you've been following along with me on IG then you probably seen all the pictures in this post before, but I wanted to show them to you here as well. I'm going to chat a bit today about my newest quilt pattern (releasing 9/14) called Carolina Mingle. Backstory I'm a true lover of lone star quilts, but just haven't had the time to ...
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The Rescue Quilts – #1 – A Tumbler Quilt – the find and the pattern
The Rescue Quilt series is about finishing up quilt tops that were never completed and then remaking the pattern. Sometimes I find easier / modern ways to make the quilt pattern, and sometimes I change up the pattern a bit to freshen things up. Sometimes I will offer the quilt pattern to you free, sometimes it will be a paid pattern in my pattern shop. The goal is to honor the quilt maker who ...
Wandering Quilt – Nicole’s – I.am.blessed
Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea: Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up. You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter ...
Wandering Quilt – Lara’s Field Study quilt
Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea: Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up. You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter ...
Quilt Beginnings – Quote Quilt and all the supplies
Inspiration. It's a pretty amazing feeling. I don't always have it, but when I do it almost feels like my mind is soaring. Ideas. Feelings. Excitement. There is usually a beginning. From about this past November - January, I was reading The Lord of the Rings books. I know, I know. I used to hate when those movies would come on TV and my husband would watch them and I get annoyed, but I ...
Wandering Quilt – Rebecca’s Dandelion quilt + an update on my honey bee quilt
Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea: Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up. You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter ...
Wandering Quilt – Sea Aquarium, Alissa’s
Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea: Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up. You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter ...
Quilt Reveal – 100 days Sky quilt
So there are quilts that you make that are super quick. There are quilts that you make to get rid of your scraps. There are quilts that you make that you are dying to make. Then there are slow making epic quilts. You know the ones. The ones that might take you multiple months, years, etc because of their complexity. The ones you start gung-ho making, then get sick of and not touch for long ...
The Nora Hexagon quilt
This is a quilt that has been brewing in my head ever since I finished my great grandmother's quilt. I look at her quilt everyday. It's still on the back of my sofa. And I wanted to re-create her quilt, but make it much more modern looking. I also wanted to blow it up huge so it didn't take me months and months worth of handwork. I was thinking I'd write a pattern for this one, ...
Quilt Reveal – hexagon quilt #3
A little history The hexagon quilt goes by many names throughout history: Honeycomb, Mosaic and sometimes Six Sided Patchwork. It's beginnings were random layouts without too much attempt at color or design. The first hexagon quilt pattern was published in 1830 in The Godey's Ladies Book according to WomenFolk.com. It was popular because a quiltmaker could use many tiny scraps of ...