Last chance for Calm + Content⟶
My latest Star Dance quilt is finished. Here is the thing about this quilt. It always starts out so lovely. I’ve picked a nice color palette, great fabrics. I love the blocks while they are being made, and then once the quilt is on the design wall, I start thinking, “Ugh.” It’s been this way…
You remember me mentioning this. Well, I found in a basket these little four patches. I’m certain I was planning to make stars, but that is where my certainty ends. I had lots of little pieces cut up besides the little 4-patches. I do remember where my inspiration for this block comes from. The cut…
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…
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…
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…