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Color Wave

Color Wave made its debut at Spring Quilt Market!  The pattern is now available!  Combine your favorite colors into one beautiful wave of color. Color Wave, a 70 x 90-inch quilt, is a new pattern release featuring Island Batik Mermaid Cove by Kathy Engle.

The lattice like effect adds dimension to the quilt design while still allowing the beautiful colors of Mermaid Cove to shine. NOTE: Many thanks to Island Batik for providing the yardage and inspiration!

The zigzag quilting is just enough and not too much. It’s a happy place when the fabric, quilt design and ...

Hi everyone! Thanks for dropping by! It has been two months since my last blog post. That's right. I almost feel like going to confession by saying that. : ) I am not Catholic though. I've been busy. I have been finalizing my latest mix and match foundation paper pieced pattern. This one is called Enchanted Paper Dolls - A Collection of Angels, Fairies and Princesses. I am truly excited about

Another month and another row added to our Sunset Isle quilts and another check in on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt.

MONTH 9

The row for this month features quarter-square triangles, or QSTs.

You will see in the pattern that QSTs are made from two half-square triangles. I made mine with the same print-HST pairs, but you could easily mix it up to make the top and bottom prints different from each other.

OTHER THINGS TO NOTE

It’s never too late to join in! You can sign up for the pattern subscription for just $24 for the year (once-off payment) and ...

A huge part of getting any quilt pattern ready to launch is sending it off to be tested by other quilters. What this means is that a group of normal, everyday quilters from around the world with a variety of skill levels and fabric tastes put your pattern through its paces.

Each of my full quilt patterns are first checked over by a tech editor (I use and highly recommend Michelle from Sew Sorted) – that’s the person who double checks all your quilt math, edits the text, etc. Then it’s off to the pattern testers. It’s the ...

Last post, I laid out goals and a plan for getting more projects to the completion stage.  Now is when I should probably report back on those but, ahem, I’m not ready.  Okay, I’ll be honest because both the goals and the plan accomplished what I hoped they would which was sticking to the same projects long enough to make progress on all three.

• Pink Sprinkles: I finished all the squares. That is if you call finishing 105 of 120 all the squares. I am, because the remaining ...

When I was a child, my grandparents gave me a brand new stuffed bunny for my birthday. He was white with blue and purple ears and thus, I named him Jelly Bean. For many years, he was my good friend. We read bedtime stories, snuggled together for movies, and hosted the best tea parties.

As I grew older, I played with him less and eventually stored him away. Today, Jelly Bean sits on a shelf in the back corner of my closet, but I still hold his memories dear and I cannot bring myself to get rid of him.

Create ...

It's quiet around here again; Chez Goodneedle has gone back to being a single family household. In the uncharacteristic stillness I have loaded "Scarlet Stars" onto Snowbird this morning and begun quilting it.  I sure do miss my little garden helper! Every day after lunch Lynnleigh and I would go out and do the deadheading, watering, or bird feeder filling;  she was always quick to remind me

It's quiet around here again; Chez Goodneedle has gone back to being a single family household. In the uncharacteristic stillness I have loaded "Scarlet Stars" onto Snowbird this morning and begun quilting it.  I sure do miss my little garden helper! Every day after lunch Lynnleigh and I would go out and do the deadheading, watering, or bird feeder filling;  she was always quick to remind me

Let’s say you’ve just stitched up a nice, basic hourglass block. The ¼” seams are flawless and it’s pressed to perfection. What do you do next? Slice that block to bits, of course! Because when those pieces are rearranged and stitched back together, you’ll have a gorgeous, super-intricate block that looks like a million bucks!

Click HERE to learn how to make the easy-as-pie Disappearing Pinwheel Crazy Eight quilt!

Thanks to everyone for your tremendous support of my pattern business. I’ve been focusing on creating fresh new patterns to showcase my fabrics and the response I’ve been receiving is simply wonderful! So I’ve decided to reduce the price of all previous paper patterns that were published before I started designing fabrics:

Modern X

Click here to purchase Modern X paper pattern for $6.95 + free US shipping

Modern X Received a 2nd Place ribbon in my local guild’s show back in 2014.

Plus, if you stock up on any of my other paper patterns and ...

Also published in a magazine this month is Star Bright. I’m afraid this post is light on photos because I only barely finished this quilt in time for my deadline and didn’t have a chance to get a nice picture, so these are all stolen from AQS. (But they did such a nice job photographing it that I really can’t compete. How great is that celestially inspired styling?)

If you’ve read my book, you might recognize this design from the chapter on setting blocks in rows, where I talk all about how to ...

Designer Spotlight

Speechless. Excited. Amazed. Thankful. These are some of the words to describe how it felt to open the July/August issue of Quiltmaker magazine.

It is thrilling to see my interview with Quiltmaker magazine in the July/August 2019 issue. The Designer Spotlight also includes some of my favorite quilts. Quiltmaker is available as a digital or print magazine.

This issue of Quiltmaker features my quilt design, Airship Propeller. The pattern, a coloring page and free motion quilting tips are included. The featured fabric is Dear William, an Island Batik collection.

I love to share my designing ...

It took a while but, after 50+ years on this earth, I've finally come to the conclusion that there is no way to stop life from interfering with plans, no matter how meticulously crafted.

In the last couple of months, my father-in-law's health steadily declined and he passed away at the end of April. What followed was planning a funeral, traveling to Texas to attend his funeral, followed by sorting out everything from Social Security to investments to Medicare to bank accounts for my mother-in-law. It looks like the dust is finally settling, so I'm going to ...

I have a fun easy pattern for you! It is a GIANT Trip Around The World. Not a jaunt across town; think of it as a BIG trip. Think of more like Jackie Chan’s Around The World in 80 Days, or...

See more sewing and quilting adventures from Jen Eskridge of ReannaLily Designs

Ask and you shall receive… I really love hearing what you want to see more of. It helps me so much when planing. Sometimes I feel like I am throwing stuff on the wall to see what sticks. Last month I showed off the quilt I made using the incredible Hedge Rose fabrics by Kelly Panacci. To create it I used my free pattern, The Double Pinwheel Quilt. You can download that file by clicking here. However, since I have the hardest time using patterns and making the same quilt over and over again I changed it up quite a ...

I hope you enjoyed reading about the making of my Geese in the Garden Quilt:
Click here for part 1 of Geese in the Garden
Click here for part 2 of Geese in the Garden

Click here to purchase Geese in the Garden quilt pattern – print version.
Click here to purchase Geese in the Garden quilt pattern – PDF version on Etsy.
Click here to purchase the Geese in the Garden Quilt Kit

About Geese in the GArden

• Size: 32″ x 40″ (Baby)
• Pattern comes in 4 sizes
• Completed: October, 2018
• Machine used: BERNINA 770QE
• Fabric used: Abstract Garden by Christa ...