Quilting

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Portion of a quilt top showing large pink and purple flowers

Paper piecing again

Last fall I went to the Houston Quilt Festival and saw a new-to-me paper piecing company called LegitKits. They had show-special prices, and I was lucky enough to win a further discount, so I bought one of their kits, called Little Hummer. The pattern comes with all of the necessary […]

Two 4" blocks with grey "roof" added to the top. One block has a pink "cross" with purple corners. The other is a sort of American "flag", also with a grey roof.

BOM progress

My local quilt group is working on a BOM again this year, this one designed by our “fearless leader”. She’s a talented quilter/designer who has had some quilts published in a magazine, and she volunteered to do this one for us this year. She made the blocks 8″ square, with […]

A set of three quilt blocks of "houses" and trees. There are more roofs and trees for future blocks

Oops … I did it again.

Last year I ended up working on two BOMs, which kept me pretty busy while also trying to work on various other projects. One of those BOMs was one that our quilt group decided to do as a group project, though everyone did her own version. Some of us did […]