Yearly Archives: 2021

25 posts

bags of quilt pieces

A new project

I saw a quilt online recently and thought it looked like a fun one to make, so I bought the downloadable design. Oops. After downloading it and reading the instructions, I discovered that those instructions basically said to follow the directions on the two specialty rulers required for the design […]

close-up of one gnome

A gaggle of gnomes

I’ve posted before that I like to give our grandchildren a Christmas ornament each year. Sometimes it’s a purchased one, perhaps from a trip my husband and I have taken; and sometimes it’s something I’ve made. After the holidays last year I ran across a design at Sweet Pea that […]

tiny log cabin blocks

Tiny blocks

The most recent of the online classes I’m taking from Philippa Naylor teaches techniques of making a miniature quilt. I’ve done some minis before, but I’ve usually paper pieced them; the bit and pieces of the sample quilt for this lesson are traditionally machine pieced instead. I’m not certain that […]

Swirly Whirly with blue ribbon

Local Quilt Show

Last year our guild was forced to cancel our annual quilt show, due to COVID restrictions. It was sad, but of course it had to be done. This year, though, the show was back, though it was online to try to keep things under control, in terms of exposure and […]