mary elizabeth kinch

A Little of This and a Little of That from The Cozy Quilter

The November Modern Block of the Month pattern was released this week at the Twilight Quilt Guild blog, so I dug out my fabrics and got sewing. The chevrons were paper pieced. The glasses fabric will appear in every block in my quilt along with other assorted dots and stripes in orange and navy. I was afraid I was going to run out of the gray hash dot background fabric but managed to find some at a localish store and had them ship it to me.

I added the final borders to my Summerhill quilt from Mary Elizabeth Kinch's ...

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Piecing, Stitching and Knitting from The Cozy Quilter

Last weekend, I took a class with Mary Elizabeth Kinch on piecing with small bits of fabric. The quilt I am making is called Summerhill. It has 4 blocks surrounded by some borders. I have now finished two of my blocks. Each square in this first block finishes at one inch.

The second one is a Courthouse step block--each log is .5" finished. This is not paper pieced.

I am using scraps from my cool Kona solids bin plus red violet. About half of the scraps are all over my cutting table so I am going to have to keep ...

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Stitching Report from The Cozy Quilter

I finished off the walking foot quilting on my London Modern Guild HST BOM quilt this week. The orange diamond was my focal point and the quilting lines ran parallel to each side of the diamond, creating an X of parallel lines and other areas of cross hatching off each corner of the diamond. I used orange thread for the quilting and even though this is a relatively small quilt, I went through 3 bobbins of thread!

The orange binding is leftover from the HST's. I just love those seagulls!

I purchased the backing fabric on sale several months ...

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