Are you ever a little disappointed when you hang a little quilt on the wall or is it just me? Sometimes they hang a little wonky, the binding isn’t quite straight, the edges ripple, or they are not flat against…
Friday Finish: Winnie the Pooh Baby Quilt
There is a miscellaneous basket of UFOs sitting in my basement family room. There are just random projects in various states of completion and last month I decided they need to go. I didn’t even go through the basket, but…
Keep It Simple Series #1: Block Makeover
One of the projects I worked on at my recent retreat had a pieced block that was ridiculously overcomplicated. It just took a quick look at the instructions to know this quilt needed a block makeover. As you know, it…
Friday Finish: Scrappy Align Quilt
Happy Friday Friends! I barely managed to finish a quilt before leaving on retreat this week. It is a scrappy version of The Align Quilt. This is actually my test quilt; the first of these I pieced. Everything in…
Half-Square Triangle Tips
Tomorrow, the second block in The Celebrate Quilt chunk of the month will be released. This quilt requires a lot of half-square triangles. You may already have a favorite construction method. If so, go ahead and use it to make…
April Challenge: Half-Square Triangles
The “Use Fabric” Challenge for April is Half-Square Triangles. This is such a basic unit in quilting, yet many quilters struggle to find accuracy and consistency when piecing them. Next week I will start a series on various construction techniques…