hand pieced

Snow...2019 from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

We woke up to a world of white

here in Western Oregon

View out the living room window...

We will be heading out to do

chores in the snow...

across the river are the calving barns.

The calves are due in 2 weeks.

In our yard...

Thread Shed and Hen House

CLICK HERE for a Thread Shed Tour

We are now across the river,

heading over the hills to the cow barns

to feed the mama cows...

You can see our red barn across the river

@ our place...

These mama cows will be having

their babies very soon.

After all ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 week, 1 day ago. under cattle , cows , farm , hand pieced , hexagon quilts , quilt , snow , video

Hexagon Table Runner.... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

It's time for a new...

Take-A-Long Project

Hexagons.....always a favorite to hand piece

This is what 170 hexagons looks like

This is how big they are...

A hexagon is measured by one of the sides...

1 1/2 inches along one of the 6 sides

I use a glue stick to baste the fabric to the

paper hexagon

I am using 20+ fabrics...

some of them are my hand dyes

some of them are commercial batiks

they are all bright and cheerful...

which I need on these gray, rainy days of winter

here in Western Oregon

This table ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 week, 4 days ago. under english paper piecing , hand pieced , hexagon quilts , tablerunner , take-a-long quilt

Sarah’s Tumbling Block Quilt is an Example of Precise Hand Piecing from Quilted Joy

Tumbling blocks is a quilt pattern that many people are familiar with, even if they don’t immediately recognize the name. It is sometimes referred to as a rhombus cube. Sarah could have made this quilt with triangles, but that would have been too easy. There are no triangles, only rhombus parallelograms. This was pieced by hand with a lot of y seams.

Tumbling Block Quilts have Y-Seams

For those unfamiliar with the y seam, this means that she had to sew to a specific point and then turn to sew in a different direction. Typically, when a quilter pieces ...

added by peterson206.MP 4 weeks, 1 day ago. under batiks , edge to edge quilting patterns , hand pieced , tumbler block quilt (Comments)

Lady Wigram from Wendy's Quilts and More

I'm thrilled to be able to show this quilt that I've been secretly stitching for the last six months. I gifted it to my mother in law yesterday, so now I can share it with you all.

My mother in law has always admired everything I make, but she isn't a quilter herself. When my mother and father in law decided to move into a retirement village, I thought it was time I made them a quilt for their new home.

This pattern is called Bella Ruby and it's designed by Emma Di Stefano who owns ...

added by Wendy @ Wendysquiltsandmore 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under aurifil , aurifil artisan , aurifil thread , bella ruby quilt , feed sack fabric , hand pieced , hand piecing , hand quilted , hand quilting , lady wigram quilt , tree house textiles

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Tumbling Block Quilts have Y-Seams