In the last few months, since making a pieced quilt back to accommodate the HUGE label for my quarantine cabins (read about it here), I have rediscovered the joy of piecing a quilt back. I had been using widebacks. For…
The Original Plan When last I wrote about this Log Cabin Quilt, I was planning a quilt of mostly solids with a cheerful 1950s palette (see that post here). Well, when I got to making I found that I needed to…
A couple of months ago, I launched a Patreon account. I announced it here and have mentioned it a few times since, but today I want to do a bit of a deeper dive into WHY I decided to try Patreon…
This little quilt is based on some doodles—made a few years ago—of the tile in a favorite restaurant. It came to life as a quilt in the last two weeks when we decorated for the holidays and I thought to…
It's the weekend after Thanksgiving, which means the nearby park's picnic area is filled with Christmas Trees and for $45, you can have one of your choosing. Picking out a tree This year, given the global pandemic and the death…
What is it about Log Cabin Blocks? Once I start playing with them, I just keep going! Atomic Log Cabin I’ve been sharing this quilt on Instagram as I have made it and I had number of people ask for…
With all this time at home (my family is on Day 20 of a covid-19 quarantine), my mind has turned to the log cabin quilt. In the past I have had a lot of fun playing with this traditional pattern in unexpected…
In 2009, I caught swine flu (H1N1) from a toddler I was nannying. My case was mild, but following the advice of the experts, I self-quarantined for a week. During that week, I became so explosively bored that I wrote the first…
I went on a retreat with my guild this last weekend. Oh what fun! While I was there, I made this quilt! Yay! My Wild Guy Quilt #wildguyquilt A few folks asked what the pattern is. There isn’t exactly a pattern, but…