I am developing a taste for paper piecing. I am making placemats with the houses I have sewn last fall and the Delectable Mountains I have made during the last weeks. I wanted to add a few trees to my … Continue reading
read moreAfter a week cooped up in the house, I know you are wondering how many projects I finished with all that time on my hands. We had power at home from Sunday on, so there really was no excuse not to knock out some projects. well…. it was a mini-vaca from working the first day or so [ok, I was resting the twisted knee from my ice capade}. I cleaned my sewing room at the house. That took a while
read moreI just found this blogger Hibiscus Stitches and was poking around with her pages and I found this page of surprises.
This blogger has a bundle of really cute patterns from single patterns to a book as well.
I have found this great pattern in the Quilts magazine Jan/Feb 2015.
You must check it out. Click on the link below. Enjoy, Carli
http://hibiscus-stitches.blogspot.ca/p/items-for-sale.html?m=1
I’m excited to share a free block pattern with you over at Blossom Heart Quilts! I designed the Wanta Fanta block for Alyce’s Bee Hive Series and here is how several blocks look together:
It’s partially paper-pieced, but no curves to sew!
Check out Alyce’s blog for more information on the block, and her series (with lots of free block patterns!). You can download the pattern here.
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Do you remember the quilt top that I made on a whim recently? Well, in a fit of productivity, I went ahead and finished it! Would you like to see? Here’s the top, in case you missed it the first time around.
Quilt top
For the quilting I did a combination of free-motion circles and wavy lines done with a walking foot. I put the circles in each of the little charm square patches first, so they sort of link all the way down the quilt. Then I switched to the walking foot to go back and forth across ...
read moreThe Boston Modern Quilt Guild is making charity quilts this year and members have been asked to donate blocks made with fabrics that are from the same color family. The quilts will then be made with a rainbow of the different color grouped blocks.
I came up with a strategy for my blocks which involved sorting all of my fabric scraps by color and then selecting strips from each pile and sewing them together.
After sorting the strips I trimmed them so they were all about the same length and so that each strip was a uniform width, but the ...
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I am so excited to finally show you this finished quilt that I made what seems like ages ago—I had to keep it under wraps until now, because it’s coming out as a pattern in the April/May issue of McCall’s Quick Quilts!
Photo courtesy of McCall’s
Photo courtesy of McCall’s
The quilt is made using fusible appliqué and actually comes together relatively quickly. The size is 52″ x 52″—great for a wallhanging or crib quilt. It’s got plenty of negative space to highlight your quilting, too. I quilted the outlines of the ...
read moreSo my cute friend Nancy wanted to learn how to paper-piece and came by to spend the day with me in the sewing room. Yes, I was "Sewing with Nancy"!! *Ü*
The pattern for my quilt Paper Cranes is now available on Craftsy (for U.S. folks) and PatternSpot (for the international crowd)!
Paper Cranes quilt pattern
The paper piecing pattern includes three sizes (baby, lap, and queen), along with quilting and binding suggestions. Or use the block to do your own thing! Please be aware that familiarity with paper piecing is assumed; if you’ve never paper pieced before, check out the resources here first.
Special thanks are due to my lovely pattern testers, Yanick B. of Sewn With Curves (see her quilt top here) and Joanne of Quilts by ...
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Well, instead of finishing quilts in progress, I went ahead and made another quilt top. It’s just so fun! Now I have one more work in progress that I’ll have to get basted and quilted, but I figure there are worse things to have so I’ll just put it on the list and hopefully get it completed soon.
What inspired me to start a new design was a little mini charm pack I received. It’s from Moda, and the collection is called Field Guide by Janet Clare. Precut fabrics are so great, I think. They come ...
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I have made an other Tea in the Rose Garden mug rug. This one is a Valentine’s Day version. Perfect for this month of the year during which hearts hold a place of honor. Again, I have used old clothes … Continue reading
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January has started off a little slowly for me. I've been doing a lot of sorting through and organizing type stuff and also quietly working away on a new pattern.
This one is my hold it all pouch and it's taken me about three months to put together. There's been a lot of sewing and seam ripping and starting again going on over here. I've made pouches like these in the past but even though they came out looking quite nice in the photo's I was really disappointed with them because they were really flimsy ...
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