piecing

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Spinning blocks quilt top

Slowly, but surely

Several weeks ago, I posted a bit of progress on my current quilt project. I’d love to say that getting ready for the Christmas season is the reason I haven’t gotten any further, but that wouldn’t be true. At least, it would only be partially true. 😉 What actually happened […]

spinning blocks

The next step

Today I finished all of the blocks for the little quilt I’m working on. Paper piecing made this doable, since each unfinished block is only about 4.5″ on a side and has 19 pieces; each strip is only 3/8″ wide at its widest point. I had to be very organized […]

triangular block

New project

Yesterday I had some fun at the quilt shop as I picked out eight colors for my next quilt, which will be quite a bit smaller than my last one. However, it’s going to have a lot more pieces! I’m paper piecing this one, a technique I’ve enjoyed for a […]

Echoes

Progress on two fronts

I’m still working on the same quilt I showed you a couple of weeks ago. There’s progress, but it’s been slowed because of another project I had to get done — and it has a deadline. This project isn’t a quilt, but it’s related. You see, about twenty-five years ago […]

Can you see it?

I’m working on a new quilt, this one designed by Ruth Ann Berry and called Echoes; my husband actually picked this one out. Can you see the intertwined shapes beginning to emerge? The quilt is made entirely of triangles laid out in eighteen rows of 45 triangles each. Keeping track of […]