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Add a quilt full of beautifully braided blocks to your collection with the Easy Sashed Braids Quilt Pattern! The Easy Sashed Braids Quilt is a fun foundation paper project that will get your creative ball rolling and only takes a quick 5 to whip up. Join us for a free video tutorial, where Kimberly demonstrates how to use the 5″ Jelly Braid Paper and some simple sashing to make this quick quilt.

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Ever notice how much time you actually spend at your ironing board?

Pressing seams. Setting blocks. Fixing little waves before they turn into big problems. In quilting, your iron isn’t just an accessory — it’s practically a second sewing machine.

But not all irons are created equal. If yours leaks, spits, shuts off at the wrong moment, or just doesn’t get hot enough to give you crisp seams, it can slow everything down. And when you’re trying to enjoy your sewing time, the last thing you want is to wrestle with your tools.

In this guide, I ...

We are already in the second week of Lent. Right on cue, the Lenten Roses are blooming, time marches on and spring is appearing sporadically. One day it's here and the next we're plunged back into winter.It's been a very sad time this past week, our dear daughter-in-law lost her precious mother to a horrible and aggressive brain tumor that appeared, so suddenly, just last summer. We will miss

We are already in the second week of Lent. Right on cue, the Lenten Roses are blooming, time marches on and spring is appearing sporadically. One day it's here and the next we're plunged back into winter.It's been a very sad time this past week, our dear daughter-in-law lost her precious mother to a horrible and aggressive brain tumor that appeared, so suddenly, just last summer. We will miss

The Stay at Home Round Robin is quilted and bound.  Hooray!  

I've scheduled a quilt a month with Barb.  Whether I take something from the box of flimsies or create something new will depend on the month.

STASH REPORT, February ...

March 2026 Starlit Meadow BOM – 4 Blocks This Month

March is a good one.

No curves. No tricky piecing. Just clean lines, straight seams, and a block that comes together in a way that feels steady and satisfying.

This month you’ll be sewing four blocks.

That’s enough to see progress, but not so much that it takes over your sewing time.

Can’t wait to see your Starlit Meadow sparkle!

A Closer Look at the March Block

This block is built around simple half-square triangles in the center, surrounded by a bold frame. The layout gives it a ...

 Not by me! Lisa comes once a month and cleans. Does the kitchen, the bathrooms, dusts, vaccums, mops. She's here for about 2 hours. I've had a cleaner for years. It started when Heather was working but not going to school after high school, and she cleaned instead of paying board. Win win situation. When she moved out, my niece took over the job, and did it for years, til the pandemic. After the pandemic we hired Lisa, and she does a great job. 

We are forced to tidy up when Lisa is coming, so she can clean ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Weather.

This is my seventh year participating in QBM, and I hope you’ve enjoyed my free block pattern each month! If you’ve missed any, the patterns for previous months are available in my shop.

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How to Get the Free Block at the end of this post.

I love the rain. Okay, not driving ...

The theme for this month’s quilt blocks is weather, so I decided to make a clouds quilt block. I have made some

The post Clouds Quilt Block appeared first on Always Expect Moore.

So the last round is “Quilter’s Choice”. Let me just say that clue is easy and hard at the same time. I knew after Round 5, my top needed something more. 

Yes, that definitely helps. A quilting friend suggested I add another purple border, and I have enough purple to do that. I was thinking of something like a picket fence-type border. I made 10 or 12 of the purple blocks, and started doubting myself ...

It's DONE, and I had a small ceremony as I removed this project from the Visual To-Do List. I LOVE that list, and it's so motivating to me!!! 

One project is removed from the Visual To-Do list.

YES -- this is the quilt that I was going to make for someone, and we decided to abandon the project for several reasons. Making quilts for others is the largest category on that list with NINE quilts. One down, and eight to go! 

But getting to the point of removing the project from the list involved dealing with everything in the ...

Electric Quilt has brought out a new add-on block program called Quilt Journeys which expands the block library greatly. The blocks are representative of all 50 states, with not only pieced block designs, but also applique shapes for the state birds, flowers and more. Of course, I had to start with North Carolina. For this one, there are applique shapes for the state outline, a cardinal, a pine cone, and dogwood blossoms.

There are a number of Carolina Lily designs in the North Carolina section. There are also other blocks that have names related to North Carolina, like a Raleigh ...

Hard to believe we've already started on the third month of 2026. We'll be one quarter through the year by the end of the month.  Not to scare anyone, but wow, it's been going by fast.  February was a pretty good month, I didn't check all the items off my to do lists each week, but I got close.  The last week of the month was consistent with the previous 3.