Quilts in Progress

Jelly Rolls.  If there is anyone out there who doesn’t know what this hot new quilting temptation is, a jelly roll is an entire fabric collection that has been laser cut into 2 1/2" strips, rolled up like a bakery confection and tied with a bow.  Each pack contains one 44" long strip of each…

A few months ago I bought a darling quilt kit from Cottage Quilts online shop.  They had assembled a beautiful assortment of fabrics from Moda’s Chocolat collection and put them together as a kit to be used along with this sampler quilt book, "Country Gatherings" by Dillard & Glordi.  The book has several different suggestions…

Sara asked me to help her come up with some prototypes of fast easy projects that would put charm squares to a good use.  She is planning to set up an online shop this summer and wants to create some quilt kits that will appeal to beginning quilters as well as experienced quilters who want…

I feel positively exhilarated!  Since finishing up a couple of UFOs, I have permitted myself to begin a new project for each completed one.  The newest project I have come up with is inspired by the brand new Yuletide Blessings fabric group (Fig Tree for Moda).  Yummy faded cherry reds and sagey greens combined with…

As promised, I am posting today about my 32 orphaned Christmas blocks.  These blocks are what are left over from my Return to Sender quilt top after I decided to eliminate them in favor of using mostly blocks with a high degree of contrast in the block fabrics (black/cream, red/cream, green/cream). These leftover blocks are…

I know, I know.  Christmas isn’t anywhere close.  It’s only May for heaven’s sake.  Still, if I want a Christmas quilt by the holiday season, now is the time to get it made.  If I wait until Fall to get this top to my quilter, it will be touch and go if I will have…

Thangles Galore.  You might think that sounds like the female lead in a James Bond movie.  But no, Thangles are a wonderful quilting tool that enables one to make scads and scads of half square triangles without sewing on bias edges or drawing stitching lines on the fabric. The first step is cutting your fabric…

Things are coming along.  Slowly but surely they are coming together.  Enough of the pink and brown blocks have been sewn that I can lay out the center portion of the Raise the Roof design and actually get a preview of what it will look like when finished!  It seems so creative of the pattern…

I’ve mentioned the difficulty I am having with constructing my pink and brown star blocks for my Raise the Roof quilt.  The blocks take forever to lay out properly and there are many ways to make errors in the orientation and position of the block elements.  I have been procrastinating about sitting down and facing…

The Fatquarter Challenge is on!  I couldn’t wait to get started with all the cutting that is required for my Celebrate Spring quilt.  Normally, cutting is a zen like activity for me, one that I actually enjoy.  This project is no exception, and I found much satisfaction in tossing the trimmings into my waste basket…