My scrap bins are overflowing so I decided to start cutting them in useful sizes. Scraps that are 11” long or longer I cut into strips. I have drawers for 5”, 3-1/2”, 2-1/2”, 2” and 1-1/2” strips. Smaller scraps are…
Baby Quilt Blitz-Day 2
Today’s quilt is similar to yesterday’s but it has checkerboard sashing on two sides. I was inspired by this tile floor. I had to do a little playing around with it in EQ7 to make it work for charm squares…
DWM: Baby Quilt Blitz-Day 1
This series of quilts is truly a case of one thing leading to another and it came from two directions. First, I somehow ended up with several charm packs of juvenile fabric and then my small quilting group chose baby…
Friday Finish: Metro Waves
Have you seen the Quick Curve Ruler by Sew Kind of Wonderful? It is designed to make cutting and piecing curved blocks easier. I love curved piecing and have made a number of quilts using circle templates so this looked…
Hands2Help: Quilts Revealed
It is time for everyone to reveal the quilts they made for this year’s Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge. Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict has been the driving force behind this challenge for several years. I can’t wait to…
Change in TV Viewing
When you’re quilting do you watch TV, listen to audiobooks or sew in silent bliss? My confession: I was usually watching the worst reality TV. Last week though, while piecing the Generations quilt, I came to the decision to delete…
DWM: Cardinal In The Pines
This quilt was another UFO I came across recently. It was supposed to be a shop sample but the fabric was very popular and sold out before this was finished. The center blocks were pieced together and all of the…
Happy New Year 2014!
The past couple of weeks have been so busy I’ve hardly been on the computer at all. I was under the gun to finish two commission quilts by Christmas, then I made a large quilt for my son and daughter-in-law…
