Hey, hey! This week is MY week of hexagons. I have cut up 3 different hexagon quilts, one of them is for a custom order you will see in this post. Very scrappy. Two more to come soon, one will be a new pattern. I've been asked for a tutorial and pattern details for this hexagon quilt that uses half hexies. This will be a LONG post, so let's get right to it. No history this ...
Quilt Reveal – Tiny patch quilt
The definition of a scrap quilt - a quilt created out of several pieces of various fabrics, frequently these pieces are extra pieces of fabric from past quilting projects. I finished this quilt this weekend. You might remember me discussing this quilt and my scrap fabric storing system. If not, that post is here and includes the quilt pattern for this quilt ...
Quilt reveal – swoon #2
I am going to miss staring at this quilt in it's various stages. It's been quite the beauty around here. And happy. It's the happiest quilt. The Pattern: This is a Thimble Blossoms / Camille Roskelley pattern. Pattern and class is available here. Camille's pattern is smaller than mine. I upped her 9 blocks to 16 blocks with 2.5" sashing and borders ...
Wandering Quilt – Tree of Life, Susan’s
Hey, hey! Today I'm talking about Wandering Quilt. Wandering Quilt is a traveling quilt group I'm in that runs January to October of this year. 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 ...
Making a Swoon Quilt
Hello, hello! We are about to embark on the beautiful, the one and only, Swoon. And no, please don't swoon (or you can if you want to), I'm saying the pattern is called 'Swoon'. The Swoon quilt was designed by Camille Roskelley several years ago and was wildly popular. And it's still very popular today. It is actually an old block that you can find in many antique quilts, but Camille made ...
Scraps with purpose
I think anybody who buys a lot of fabric ends up with a lot of scraps. Anyone who cuts into there fat quarters and half yards knows what I'm talking about. There are these pieces that end up leftover, not big enough to go back into where you keep your stash, but not small enough to trash either. So you keep it. Maybe you have yours sorted by color or designer, maybe by cut or size, but no ...
And the Winner is…
and the winner is... This picture wins the prize quilt. (please contact me with address to ship your quilt) 2nd place goes to.. This picture wins a $50 gift certificate to my shop. (please contact me for details on how to use) and ...
Wandering Quilt – honey bee quilt – the Journal, mine
Friday was the day to finally get this quilt into it's second stage. You might remember I mentioned that this year, January thru October, I am a member of a traveling quilt group. Everyone starts with a starter block and on January 27th we were to send our starter group to the next person to work on. Mine went to Susan and she will be working on it in February, while I'll be working about ...
The whimsical Dresden quilt – part 3 – finished
I am FINISHED with this quilt! Whew!! I started this quilt on January 7th and finished it up just a few days ago. It was about 14 days of work, but all those days were not spent on this quilt so it's hard to say exactly. I did some work each day. My color palette was navy, aqua, teals and mustardy golden yellow. You will note tiny bits in the quilt where I snuck in a different color. I ...
Whimsical Dresden quilt – making part 2
It feels like ages I have been working on this quilt. In actuality it's been two weeks. It has not been dreaded work like difficult quilts tend to become after hours and hours spent on them. This one has been exciting to watch it come together. And I've been excited to get to the end so I can see it. The part 1 of this post is located here. I mentioned in an earlier post that my ...