Snail's Trail quilt top

The top is finished

I haven’t posted for a while, but I have finally finished the top I’ve been working on. This photo shows just the completed top, but yesterday I also pin basted it for quilting. Of course, I haven’t yet decided how I’m going to quilt it, but that will come. In […]

Snail's Trail blocks

Snail’s Trail blocks

The quilt I’m working on needs sixteen Snail’s Trail blocks, and my Bernina and I finished making those today — yay! I still need to make 25 pieced cornerstone blocks and 20 diamond sashing blocks, but these Snail’s Trail blocks have more pieces in them than the others. Hmmm … […]

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 […]

standing gnomes with tall hats

The Year of the Gnomes

Remember these gnomes that I showed you last week? I’ve added some different ones to the “collection” this week. I’d signed up several weeks ago to take a class at the quilt shop after seeing how cute the samples were. The design is by Embroidery Garden, and it’s easy to […]

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 […]