We're making a Dresden plate!⟶
I feel like I am making this quilt every few weeks now. It’s popular in my shop. And I just really love it. Particular today’s version of it. So in this version, my customer chose 10 different fabrics, but I added to those fabrics to give it more of a smidgen of scrappy feel. I…
I’ve been working on this quilt all of last week. Not the one you see above my sewing machine, that’s a WIP, but the one you see at my machine. It’s a simple block, but I had to make 81 of them for a king size quilt, so it took me a bit. Here are a…
It feels like I’ve been working on this pattern for a month. There has been major setbacks due to some printer issues I have had. All is well now and the pattern is now for sale here. I really, REALLY love this quilt. It is inspired my great grandmother, Nora. She was a talented quilt…
And again…… I have decided that my favorite part of quilt making is choosing and cutting the fabrics. Is that weird? That I enjoy cutting fabrics. Sometimes I will spend near two hours standing at my cutting table simply cutting up the pieces for a quilt top. But I like it. I’m thinking that it’s…
Hiya! You may notice that I do quite a bit of quiltmaking. And that means many hours sitting at my machine and many hours of my neck bent in the same position. I tell you this little personal story in case you too have been suffering as I have. I have had many knots at…
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…