February 17 Slanted Diamonds 3" Dark
This blog post discusses the Riley Blake Challenge Quilting Challenge, which involves creating a quilt using a specific fabric line from Riley Blake Designs.
Are you ready for the final block? It's another paper pieced block. Here is what you will need: (4) copies of the pattern - download...
Joannes designs week40 a Pinterest challenge delivering 'The Night Cross Quilt' a lap quilt based on a repeating cross block pattern.
The January and February blocks for the 365 Challenge quilt are finished, except for the part of the center block that we already received the instructions for. It will be made in warm colours. 65 Little 3" blocks. This is how the quilt grid looks now. I’m four weeks behind and I have no clue…
The 365 quilt project began in 2016. Designed by an Australian quilter, Kathryn Kerr, as its name suggests, the 365 quilt features one quilt block per day. Kerr diligently released a quilt block pattern every single day of 2016. Quilters around the world rushed to make their own 365 quilt, including me. Here's an image
Joannes designs week39 a Pinterest challenge delivering 'Sweet Baby Blocks' a baby quilt based on the very versatile half square triangle.
Make a quilt block every day for a year to build the ultimate sampler quilt!
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Make a quilt block every day for a year to build the ultimate sampler quilt!
Here's what I was playing with the last couple of days. It's 16"x20". The resident dolls Susie, Curly and Elizabeth will be sharing it once it is quilted, though there is a rumour that the vast collection of stuffed animals may challenge them for it. I'm happy to report that this didn't make a huge dent in my new blue stash. All it took was a 1.5"x10" piece of each blue and one fat quarter of the white, so I have plenty left to make a throw size version, with more and bigger stars now that I'm satisfied that the pattern looks like I thought it would. I started thinking about this one shortly after I made this little Kansas Dugout. The more I looked at it the more I could see stars where the rings meet, and I thought that careful colour placement would make an interesting star quilt. I never did finish the Dugout quilt. I was going to make it into a doll quilt and practice free motion on it. Unfortunately, because it was a practice piece I sandwiched it with some really cheap fusible batting I had left over from a craft project, and it really messed up the quilting. Apparently it was the cause for my skipped stitches and broken threads and birds' nests on the back. It took 3 visits to the quilt store and leaving the machine for service before anyone came up with that idea, and then that person was me...We'll see how this little blue one quilts up with good batting and see if that was indeed the issue! Plain practice sandwiches with good batting and no seams are quilting up OK now. Now I'm heading back to the hearts quilt: 27 blocks quilted, only 21 more to go. I'm past the halfway mark!
You can find my Leopard Print Block Foundation Piecing Pattern at Etsy here, or Payhip here if you're avoiding or boycotting Etsy. I had been wanting to make a repeating leopard print block for a long time then got inspired by Inktober's 52 week challenge in January to finally set out to design one! Inktober
I have been admiring the Atomic Starburst quilt by Violet Craft for a long time. It has very pointy paper piecing, which I do enjoy from time to time. I decided to make a version for my Starstruck Island Batik Ambassador challenge. The challenge was meant to be published in September. I almost made it.
Quilts such as this: And this: And this: Are beautiful. They’re eye candy, and a lot of quilters are immediately drawn to them, not only because they’re beautiful, but also because they’re challenging. What’s so difficult about these quilts? The size of the blocks. Ranging anywhere from 4-inches to 6-inches (finished), the blocks in these…
Happy weekend to you! We've got another block in the Farmhouse Sampler quilt to share today -- and it's one of my favorites. Before we jump in to that, though, I just wanted to give a quick little reminder to share your Farmhouse Sampler block progress over on Instagram by adding #farmhousesamplerquilt to your pictures
Happy belated 4th of July! I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend. I stayed up with my parents this weekend for a little mini vacation. We worked on some home projects, did some sewing, dreamed about puppies, watched fireworks and ate some yummy barbecued foods! It was a much needed relaxing weekend! Our lives are
