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 … […]
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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 […]
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 […]
It’s finished! Yay! Homecoming is a design from Lo & Behold Stitchery. I’d previously made another of the designs from this site, and the technique is interesting; different strips are combined in varying combinations and then cut into blocks of various sizes and shapes. It’s not always obvious where you’re going […]
My latest quilt is another one designed by Lo & Behold Stitchery. This one is called Homecoming, and I’m making the throw size, which is a generous 53″ x 71″. The front of the pattern shows it in five colors (background and four others), but there’s also an option to […]
I took a few days off from working on my clamshells and finished another of the online classes I’ve been enjoying. This one gave techniques on designing curved blocks from traditional ones and then piecing them. I didn’t design my own block, since one was included in the lesson, and […]