Medallion Quilt
I'm a great believer in continuing to take quilt classes forever, as you never know when you'll learn something new or get sparked to start something unexpected. I learned so much from Erin Burke Harris’s class (House on Hill Road)…
I'm a great believer in continuing to take quilt classes forever, as you never know when you'll learn something new or get sparked to start something unexpected. I learned so much from Erin Burke Harris’s class (House on Hill Road)…
I'm writing this blog post about 14 months after this Mini Meadowland Quilt was pieced! Oops! It doesn't really matter except that I already shared the quilt (the Cute Quilt) made from the LEFTOVER fabric from this quilt. Ha. The…
A year or so ago I bought a yard of Heidi Kenney's Friendly Faces fabric. This adorable fabric has lots of color and is made of squares that are approximately 3". The fabric has a variety of fun figures with…
This improv flag quilt top (and these photos!) are from the summer/fall of 2017. Somehow I managed to finish this quilt top and then neither blog this quilt nor quilt it! I know why—Simon was born at the end of 2017. …
Last month, one of my favorite fabric & quilt designers, Carolyn Friedlander, published a free pattern and announced a Ray Quilt along. I enjoyed looking at what she had made and while I was considering her choices, I started thinking about…
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…
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…
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…