Posts in this category talk about how quilts are designed.
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. …
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…
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…
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…
I've got a new pattern in the shop! This quilt makes me happy every time I see it & now you can make your very own! It's improvisationally pieced, mostly on a sewing machine, with a little bit of appliqué…
Ah, the start to a new year. It’s a time when many people pause for a moment to decide on new challenges to tackle. As I noted in my last post, I’ve got a new challenge in the shape of…
A plus quilt. Simple, attractive, and timeless. I recently whipped up this quilt for a loved one who was diagnosed with cancer. I wanted her to have something made with love to take with her to chemo (I hear it…
If you follow along with me on Instagram (i'm rossiecrafts), you'll notice that I love stacking up fabric combinations. This is just something that happens when I'm in my studio...fabrics find their way into pretty combinations, and I take out a…