This month’s theme is “drinks,” so I designed this fun champagne quilt block, complete with a champagne bottle and two champagne glasses.
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read moreI am an admirer of Kim Diehl and her designs–geometric, creative, small scale, lots of pieces.
But, sometimes I want to make a big quilt, and most of her designs are mini or small quilts. I get it. That is a lot of pieces.
But, I am making a Big Diehl. The Windspinner pattern it is based on is in the book Simple Whatnots III, which contains several others that are on my “someday” list.
Why Big Diehl? Because I plan to make the block 25 times, using the suggested border as sashing to join them. I have four ...
read moreLemon, lime, oranges or mandarin oranges.
I adore the scent of citrus! Cleaning products, candles, bath products, you name it! I love a wedge of lemon in my coke and add in all the ice cubes!
Do you have a scent or flavor that you adore?
The design Lemon Slices is based on an orange peel grid, and it creates a lovely texture which keeps your quilt nice and cuddly. The design can be stitched out with a quilting ruler if you want to. It depends on how smooth your curves turn out and what size grid you are using ...
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New month, new project file, which started when I was drawing the leaves and added the outer leaves flopping down a bit and meeting when I repeated four of them around the centre.
I like the second design, and like the floppy leaves alone to fill an otherwise empty space.
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I love fiddling with fabric, making clothes, rag dolls, Christmas tree decorations, even a Christmas tree or two, as well as fiddling with designs for all of the above, and beads and buttons …. a fiddling addict!
Sometimes I actually finish a real quilt, but as I prefer hand work that is not an every day occurrence!
read moreThis Orange Peel Stars design has several stitch paths to choose from. The first one is based on one of my tutorials from 2017.
Stitch path 1:
Stitch out an orange peel design first to stabilise your fabric. Best results are achieved by using a ruler, but I am known to free hand them if the shapes are small (blue lines in drawing below).
Once you have filled your block with Orange Peels, enter the space inside of the Orange Peel, starting from the left. Echo around that space in an inward spiral (green lines in the drawing below). Once ...
read moreThis quilt started out as a leader-ender in March 2022. You can read more about the process HERE.
In spite of the challenges, particularly it not being as large as I thought it would be, I am happy with the outcome.
It used so many scraps! And is that lovely mix of traditional and contemporary that I seem to lean towards.
Total pieces: 3456. Yardage (cut sizes) in top: 7-1/4 yards (more or less). Scraps are eternal, but they do add up fast. The top finished at 64″ x 72″. The small squares start at 1-1/2″.
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I love February! For a lover of hearts and pink and all things Valentine’s, it’s a beautiful month even if the weather doesn’t agree! Often in the Pacific Northwest, it’s also the time of year we get what I like to call “False Spring.” We get a few days of very pretty, hopeful weather that gets all the gardening people excited…then it settles down to rain for weeks. One of the other things I love is making baby quilts and there are a whole bunch of new babies on the way this spring. I found ...
read moreThe weather has been different from hour to hour! Rain, grey clouds, sunshine, strong winds. Nothing dramatic, just a typical Dutch February. I have been able to do some cleaning up in the garden, that felt so good! I even managed to sow some Sweet Pea seeds.
This week’s free motion design is harder than it looks! Grab some paper and try it out.
The edge to edge design Splash creates Paint splashes or splatters by adding blobs in different sizes. When each set of blobs is completed, you travel to a new spot to add a new sequence ...
read moreFor the past two years, I’ve been making an effort to use only my stash and scraps for making quilts and quankets, as I have no shortage of either! I do bend this self-imposed restriction when my artistic-self tells me that purchasing that ‘just right’ fabric is necessary.
Last month, my design of Homecoming began with orphan blocks and was then rounded out with scraps. This quilt – All Star – also started with orphan blocks that I had received from Jocelyn over at Happy Cottage Quilter. She had given me two blue and two beige/golden ...
read moreThis 72″ tall by 32″ wide Folded-Freezer-Paper-Piecing pattern is based on a famous painting by Polish artist Eugeniusz_Kazimirowski of a depiction of a 1931 vision described by Polish nun Faustina Kowalska.
Order this $23.75 pattern from Peggy Aare.
It comes with a color chart for the 27 colors (specified Kona solid colors, though certainly you need not restrict yourself to one line of fabric), an exploded assembly diagram, and pages to print on freezer paper, plus general ...
read moreBehind the scenes I have been working on something epic! I have created an online free motion quilting course about the designs Ribbon Candy and Wishbone. The course is called Basic to Epic because it explains the classic sashing designs and then lifts them up to something even more decorative and complex.
Even though these two design may be considered basic, they are anything but. Learning the core structure of these designs will help you identify the cause of your wonky lines. You will learn how to tweak the structures to create any other variation.
Even experienced quilters see their ...
read moreMost of the grid-based designs I have shared with you are stitched out horizontally. I have a vertical one for you today, which makes it more suitable for domestic machine quilters compared to longarm quilters. If you want to use this on a large project on a longarm, you would have to advance the quilt after stitching just a few hearts. That would take up way too much time. So, if you would like to use this design on a longarm, maybe consider turning your project 90 degrees and stitch it out on its side???
The Row of Hearts design ...
read moreI cut the inner and out borders, and binding.
Nicely pressed binding ready for the quilt. Now to get the borders added so I can do some quilting.
This fun gear quilt block could also be called a cog quilt block, depending on what you’re looking for. The Gear is
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read moreWhat is the weather like where you live? We are having a windy week with a few drops of rain forcasted. Spring is slowly bringing forth flowers; the purple crocuses where the first to show up, with the white hellebores being a close second. It is still wise to bring an umbrella when going outside.
The free motion umbrella design is based on a clamshell grid. You can mark out a square grid or a series of semicircles. You could use a quilting ruler for the big semicircles if you want.
Before you go of and watch the YouTube video ...
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