Diamond Delight is the name of the quilt designed by Carol Doak for the cruise on which she taught this spring. It was originally designed with 6″ blocks, but I shrank mine down to 2″. I began the paper piecing of the quilt during the cruise, and then I finished […]
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During the cruise I told you about in my last post, I took two classes. There were actually three, but some of my friends and I did take one day off to explore the ship and try the zip line. 🙂 The first class was paper piecing with Carol Doak, […]
Fair warning: this post is photo-heavy. Click on any of the pictures to see a larger version. I mentioned in my previous post that I’d just returned from a cruise, and this one was different from the ones I’ve previously taken with my husband. For one thing, this time he […]
Our guild has an annual challenge, and this time we had a beautiful red batik fabric to use, as well as the requirement of a heart somewhere on whatever we created. We were given the fabric last January, and I made my piece in July but decided not to post […]
I’ve been a fan of Carol Doak for a very long time now. She’s the queen of paper piecing, for those who aren’t familiar with her name. I’ve run into her several times at the “really big show” in Houston and even had a class with her. When she agreed […]
I subscribe to the Carol Doak Yahoo group, which has several thousand members. Carol has taught classes in all 50 states, as well as many foreign countries. To mark the occasion of having “hit” all 50 states, the members of her group are making her a quilt with star blocks […]