This offset diamond quilt is really resonating with me right now, I like both the design and the colors. It needed some borders to make it bigger, so I added both a print fabric border, and a scrappy one to use up more of the scrap chaos. Then I loaded it on the longarm to …
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Using a Directional Print in Stacked Bricks
I am still on my plan to make more boy's themed quilts for our charity quilt goal with the quilt club. I found this really cute Winnie the Pooh fabric, but it is directional. The print has a fairly large repeat, so bigger pieces will show off this print better than cutting small ones. I …
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Fixing a Mistake in a Finished Quilt
Sometimes the excitement of finishing a project gets the better of me and I do something careless in my haste to finish. Well, that happened with the Scrap Dance Mystery Quilt. How is it that I can look at a quilt for weeks on end, do this mistake early on and miss every possible time …
Scrap Dance Mystery – The Big Reveal!!
The Scrap Dance mystery for 2015 is now over. If you like this pattern, it is available for sale at my Etsy store and on My Patterns page. Thanks for visiting! The new Scrap Dance Tango mystery for 2016 has started, just click on the category on the side bar to catch up. It will …
Quilt for a Boy, part 2
There were so many good suggestions on how to finish the Boys Quilt D9P, and I did think about all of them. Thanks to everyone that commented. If you missed the first part, click on Boys Quilt. Ultimately, I did go with the blue print on the left, for two reasons. One, most liked it …
How to Add a Hanging Sleeve for Showing Quilts
It seems like all I have been sewing lately are hanging sleeves for quilt shows. I have a quilt in the FBC Memory Makers quilt show during the Apple Festival and the State Fair is right around the corner! Plus I am going to enter three quilts into the Asheville Guild show, and those have …
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Fidget Quilts for Alzheimer’s patients
Have you ever heard of a Fidget Quilt? They are lap quilts, the size of oversized placemats, with different textures to feel, and things to open and close to keep hands busy. Our local quilt club is doing them for a couple of local facilities. These are really easy, I made both of these in …
I Won the EQ7 Block Challenge!
I am really excited to share that I won the EQ7 Timeless Treasures Charleston Block Challenge! After taking a class at NC Quilt Symposium, I entered the contest on the EQ7 blog Do You EQ. It was a block design challenge using a new line of fabrics from Timeless Treasures called Charleston. I was notified …
Elongated Star Block Using the Tri Recs Rulers
Sometimes you look at buying a ruler set and wonder if you will ever make more than one quilt with it. No affiliation here, but I really like the Tri Recs ruler set that makes an elongated star. My local quilt shop had the rulers, and I saw a demo there. I have done …
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Giveaway Winner
The Random number generator did its thing, and we have a winner for the book giveaway. Thank you to everyone that left a comment and entered the drawing for the Stars Unlimited book. I wish I could send a book to each and every one of you, I so appreciate your comments and your support. …
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