September Challenge Do you have a collection of 2-1/2″ strips? Is there a jelly roll in your stash that is ready to be turned into a quilt? Do you have scraps that you can cut into 2-1/2″ strips? If you…
Friday Finish: Portsmouth Choose Your Own Adventure Quilt
From time to time I buy a jelly roll but don’t have a particular pattern in mind to use it. Sometimes I will cut it up and make a “choose your own adventure” quilt. For these quilts, I piece some…
A Different Friday Finish
Have you ever been disappointed in the direction a quilting project is going? Have you ever been frustrated with a technique and felt like throwing in the towel? Have you ever wondered why you thought a particular group of fabrics…
June Challenge Wrap-Up
Today’s post checks two boxes–completing the June Challenge and also a Friday Finish! The June Challenge was to finish a solid quilt or use some solid stash. Remember this stack of Boundless fat quarters? I turned it into a Reflection…
Friday Finish: Boho Quilt and Sister Bay Table Mat
Today is the true confession edition of Friday Finish. I am more of a project starter than a project finisher. Both the Sister Bay table mat and the Boho lap quilt lingered in my sewing room for some time. Once…
Friday Finish: Nine-Patch Challenge
March challenge: nine patch Do you remember the Nine-Patch Challenge post from March 1 (click here if you missed it)? In a nutshell, I am trying to whittle down my flannel stash and wanted to add an element of fun….
Friday Finish: Nyilak and Corona
This week I finished TWO projects and both were from the Quilters Candy Membership. Last weekend I did an Instagram Takeover for the membership and I wanted to showcase a couple of projects. Currently, these patterns are only available through…
Friday Finish: The Violet Quilt
Whew! It’s been a while since I’ve had a Friday finish. Honestly, I work best when I have a deadline. My small quilting group met via Zoom yesterday and I really wanted to have something to show. The Violet Quilt…
Friday Finish: Rock Candy Quilt
Rock Candy is another quilt that has been years in the waiting. The pattern is by Atkinson Designs but it is no longer shown on their website. This is one of those magical blocks that doesn’t look like much by…
Friday Finish: Link Up
My four-week streak of having a Friday finish was in danger of being broken, but I got up this morning and finished hand stitching the binding on this quilt. Whew! It was a close one, but happily one more quilt…
Friday Finish: Rectangle Wrangle
This Rectangle Wrangle quilt started as a group project when my friends, Barb and Deb, came over from Minnesota for a sewing week last summer. I’m sure both of them finished their quilts months ago while I still had a…
Friday Finish: January Stars
Wow, my third Friday Finish post in a row! It is so nice to get a few things completed. This week I finished January Stars, so named because I started this quilt in January and I’m terrible at picking names….