Quilts in Progress

Thanks for indulging me in my reminiscing about my family’s annual Halloween party.  It has been fun sharing pictures with you, and I will have more over the next week or so, but thought I should get a few more quilty posts out here. Despite my preoccupation with my new puppy, I actually have been…

Since my dear son in law needed to use our guest room, the bed in which, I was using as a place to lay out my quilt blocks had to be cleared off.  I took your advice and so you can see my stack of a couple hundred snowball blocks and pieced triangles, all stacked…

I am making hundreds of Snowball blocks for the Miss Rosie quilt pattern "Jelly Bellies".  As you probably know, a common technique that is used when constructing this block, is to sew a square diagonally across the four corners of a larger block.  The excess fabric then needs to be trimmed away to eliminate bulk. …

These are some of the fabrics in our Buggy Barn/Carrie Nelson class kit for the quilt she thinks she is going to call "Cupcake".  She originally planned to name it "Drumbeat" (I can’t remember why–something about marching to a different drummer) and her friends told her that was a terrible name and that she should…

For my Carrie Nelson class project "Jellystone", I have been making half square triangles.  A lot of them.  Around 300 to be exact.  The method we used in class was the traditional way of drawing a line from corner to corner on a light background square, sewing a quarter inch on each side of the…

I needed to put the binding on my early fall quilt, but since it had been a year since I finished the thing, I couldn’t find the fabric I had set aside to use for the binding.  I have no clue why I procrastinate so much when it comes to sewing on the bindings to…

I spent Saturday playing around with some pretty fabrics by Joel Dewberry (Westminster).  The fun part of these blocks is that the seams do not match up on purpose.  The strips are cut 2 3/4" and 2 1/2", sewn into strip sets, then cut out with the use of a 6 inch square ruler. I’d…

This is my beginner applique project, a design called "Garden Fence Quilt" from two of my favorite designers, Joanna Figueroa and Lisa Quan of Fig Tree Quilts.  Their booklet Hearth and Home Quilts has a number of great patterns in it, including one called Sew Simple Baskets that is a real favorite of mine (in…

I am just so proud of myself I could burst.  I have been putting off doing machine applique for YEARS because I thought it was too difficult, and that I could never achieve good results.  Avoiding machine applique even caused me to slave over a simple hand appliqued border for a quilt that took me…

I went a bit nuts this weekend.  I started two new projects.  I know, I know, you have all heard me vow not to start a single new thing until I actually FINISH something, but, oh well.  Things just got the best of me. The borders for my Return to Sender Christmas quilt stared balefully…