Learn how to create quilts that look complex, detailed, and a little bit magical with these optical illusion quilt patterns. These designs use color, contrast, and clever piecing to create movement and depth—sometimes making the quilt look like it’s popping right off the surface.
If you’ve ever seen a quilt and thought, “There’s no way I could make that,” you might be surprised. Many optical illusion quilts are built from simple blocks and repeatable layouts. The magic comes from how the fabrics are arranged, not from complicated sewing.
This collection includes a variety of optical illusion ...
read moreSome time ago, Ila sent me a UFO she was not happy with. I told her I’d finish it and donate it to a needy cause. Kelli was at my house and she is the one that sewed the blocks together. Kelli got the blocks sewn together, and it was my job to put the …
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read moreI did mention two quilts from the shirts in the last post. With one quilt done, I was left with the light and really dark colored shirts. I began to look around for patterns and spotted the victory block pattern by VFWQuilts. I liked the boldness of the block against the background and thought it would work really well for the fabrics I had at hand.
I initially made a few blocks and arranged them till I was happy with the configuration. This could be a very busy design based on how the blocks were arranged so I grouped some ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. It was good to take a day off yesterday. I managed to make my way all the way around the house pulling weeds, filling my 7-gallon bucket with hairy bittercress. I'm sure I missed a few sprigs here and there, but I gave it something to think about. There were a few other unrecognized blooming weeds out there too...friends of the hairy bittercress, one assumes. I pulled up any weed that was blooming. They'll have to spread their seeds somewhere else.
My knees were killing me after that effort. The thing is...there ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. It was good to take a day off yesterday. I managed to make my way all the way around the house pulling weeds, filling my 7-gallon bucket with hairy bittercress. I'm sure I missed a few sprigs here and there, but I gave it something to think about. There were a few other unrecognized blooming weeds out there too...friends of the hairy bittercress, one assumes. I pulled up any weed that was blooming. They'll have to spread their seeds somewhere else.
My knees were killing me after that effort. The thing is...there ...
read moreIn no particular order, these are the photos found in my phone. I'm so out of routine with blog writing, but here goes
After much tinkering, I've decided on the layout for my version of Diabolical Jane.
My version repeats some of the fabrics more than the original, but I'm satisfied and I don't feel the need to find a couple more prints just to increase the fabric count.
I will carefully transfer this to the flannel side of a vinyl table cloth, roll it around a pool noodle, and take it to retreat in April. The construction is log cabin-like, starting from the outside center and building in to make each quadrant.
I'm seeing an optical effect that ...
The weather was cooperative on Friday and Saturday. I enjoyed walks at Lyons Woods Forest ... read more
Hello Everyone,
I'm happy to announce that my friend Melissa, from Honeybee Fabrics is going to offer my Timeless quilt as a BOM and as a kit! You can register for her program HERE.
Another page completed in for this ever growing collection.
Next step here is an overlay.
The embroidered cloth piece relating to this work is also progressing along with a small embroidered fabric book.
The ideas keep coming.....
We were plunged back into Christmasy looking winter on Saturday. It was beautiful outside in my woods.
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Last week was very productive, but the weekend was a bit rough since my back decided it needed to let me know I'd over done it. We had to switch fitness centers (it's a long sordid tale that I don't want to dwell on). The new fitness center equipment is the same, but different. Different enough that my "normal" fitness routine is using muscles and putting me in positions different from before. My back finally cried "Stop!" late Friday night. So I have some rethinking to do when we go work out tomorrow. Thankfully, I felt much ...
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