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 […]
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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 […]
I know it’s been a long time, but I’ve finally finished the quilt I’ve had in the works for some time. It sort of went onto the back burner for a while when I needed to rework my main website, but it’s finally finished and will be gifted to a […]
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 […]
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 […]
A couple of weeks ago, I took a local class to learn how to make a Convergence quilt, as written about by Ricky Tims. We actually began two projects in class, but my second one is a total dud! These things happen. My first effort was marginally better, though I […]