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Have Fun With The Many “Looks” You Can Achieve With this Pattern! This gorgeous quilt makes stunning use of reproduction and gingham fabrics. The pattern can take on many looks depending on the fabrics you choose and their placement. The version shown here, by Becky Hicks, has the look of a flower garden bursting with …

It has been almost a month since I have connected with you people. If you follow me on Instagram, you know I have been busy traveling, teaching, and making a new quilt. Every day, I get up and stit…

I indulged in a few long afternoons of playing in EQ8 recently. As usual, what I ended up with bears no resemblance to what I started with. This instance was rather extreme: I was thinking flowers and somehow ended up with a sailboat. Go figure! This block design ended up in my Sailing School pattern. For a tutorial about HRT, go here. After I drew it, I printed out the cut sizes the software suggested and happily started cutting and sewing, only to find that my sails were not turning out the size they should. I suppose I could have winged it and fudged all the other block parts to make it all fit together, but I'm really not an improv kind of quilter. I can appreciate a well-made improv quilt, but I don't particularly enjoy the process myself. I like to know what to cut to what size to make things fit in a predetermined way. So there. This of course meant that I needed to figure out why things weren't working out. I double- and triple-checked my seam allowance. I cut more fabric, checking my measurements. Nope, still not working. I finally figured out that my problem arose from having to guess how to line up the triangles when I sewed them together. I wasn't hitting the sweet spot. I thought I knew where to align one piece relative to the seam allowance on the other. I was wrong, though it would have worked if the geometry of that long triangle hadn't messed up the works. To make a long story short, in a HRT unit, if you want the diagonal seam to reach perfectly from corner to corner, you don't want the seam to be exactly on the diagonal of the unfinished unit. I drew it out on paper to wrap my mind around it. The paper is cut to the unfinished size of the unit and the drawn rectangle inside is the finished size. If you extend the line that runs diagonally from corner to corner in the finished size, you see that it does not actually cross the corners of the unfinished unit. Well, that's a fine how-do-you-do! I know there are rulers out there that take all this into account. In fact, I have one on my wall that would suit, except that it isn't large enough for the unit I needed. Also, the quilt design I have in mind uses just a few boat blocks, and I'd hate to ask folks to buy a specialty ruler for just a few blocks. I humphed and harrumphed and decided there must be away to make these a little larger and cut down to size so alignment wouldn't be such a bother. I took in ideas from various tutorials, and spent half the afternoon stirring them all together and finally came up with something that worked the way I wanted. I spent the rest of the afternoon figuring out the math to know what size rectangles to start with to end up with a given size. It would be a pain to use trial and error every time I want a different sized unit. There's a tutorial in the works to share the details. In the meantime, tell me, have you used HRT in any projects? If so, do you have any tips or trick to share? UPDATE: The tutorial is now available here!

Double Pinwheel Block Easy Scrappy Style – Tutorial For some time I’ve been thinking about a Double Pinwheel and how to make this in an easier fashion. I think I’ve come up with something here. I’m excited! Hope you will be too! Do you remember when Jenny Doan showed us how to make pinwheel blocks … Continue reading Double Pinwheel Block Easy Scrappy Style – Tutorial →

My daughter asked me if I could make a table runner for a fund raiser she was involved in that helps pay for spay and neuter of feral cats. I looked for a pattern to avoid purchasing cat fabric, and finally found a picture diagram of a pattern. Unfortunately they gave you no measurements for the pieces. So I winged it! That tail was a bit of an issue, but I finally got it figured out. This guy was a bit easier, mostly because I had already made enough mistakes on the first one that I knew somewhat how to proceed. Well it is ready to spray baste and start quilting. That will be the easier part given the lack of a real pattern. To Do Tuesday Silly Mama Quilts The Needle and Thread Network Mid Week Makers

The More Fabrics the Merrier for This Wonderful Quilt! Dig into your scrap bag for this eye-catching quilt and have fun selecting bits of this and that to add variety to the quilt. Fat quarters and fat eighths can be used to round out the scraps you have on hand. Select a fabric for the …

Gratis quiltpatronen Op deze pagina`s staan honderden gratis blokken van de maand. Elk blok van de maand past in een groter geheel. Bij elke serie blokken staat hoe u de blokken in een quilt kunt verwerken. U kunt natuurlijk ook maar één blok van de maand verwerken tot een kleine quilt. Kijk ook eens bij

This past weekend, I headed out of town for a change in the usual routine, to Minnowbrook Conference Center, Blue Mountain Lake in New York's beautiful Adirondack Mountains, to be specific! Here's a quick review in photos. It doesn't take long for quilters to create a home away from home. Sewing machines, patterns, notions, fabrics and way too many projects come out of boxes and bags to create a happy chaos at each table. A quiet moment; creativity awaits. Pam looks up from her purple and taupe piecing. And the sewing begins. Looky-looky! "Feedsack Peaks" from Cut the Scraps! Quilter-Janet is a little camera-shy. Sharon at the design wall. Blocks get set in the perfect arrangement, carefully planned. Kathy made this two-color block from a paper-pieced pattern by Carol Doak. Laura is making this Irish Chain quilt for her mom. A touch of Piping Hot Binding was just the ticket to frame the center medallion. Lynn and her sister Tammy enjoyed some family time. This is Tammy's very first quilt. Lynn is an accomplished teacher - didn't they both do a great job, teacher and student? Pat made a Snap Sack Quilt, "Harvest Tradition." My table mate, Gail completed a small quilt top with these colorful squares. Pretty! Inspired by my surroundings, I brought a woodsy toss print fabric and my scraps, of course! What's this going to be? You'll have to wait to find out! Sunset over Blue Mountain Lake Magically, at the end of the weekend, all the colorful fabrics and creative energy are stored away for another sewing session on a new day. All is secured safely for the drive home. All cleared away. Just for a short while, it's nice to get away and just sew. Until next time . . . Joan