New Basket Quilt Block

For anyone who’s following along, I added patterns for basket blocks 4 and 5 to the sidebar at the right. Here’s the set so far:

Block 1

Block 2

Block 3

Block 4

Block 5

August Quilting Day

Yesterday was a busy, busy day. We had our August quilting day with a record NINE people attending who either worked on projects or showed projects they had been working on. We’re still squeezing into the basement, so I apologize now for the less than stellar photos. Lighting isn’t great for photos, although I have [...]

Unstuck

So I’ve (finally) made a decision on my Family Basket blocks fabric. I was having such a hard time because everything I pulled, while nice, didn’t jump out and grab me. Finally I decided to treat it as if I were making a quilt for someone else – something that I was going to give [...]

Gawd, I hate having my picture taken

…aka, Family Quilting Day July 2009
Last weekend was our monthly quilting session and there is so much to show! A few months ago, I suggested a fabric challenge, like the Hoffman Challenge. I pulled several fabrics from my stash and we chose one as the challenge fabric. We could make anything we wanted as long [...]

2009 Family (and Friends) Basket Quilt Along

As I’ve mentioned before, our family gets together, along with a few friends, once a month to sew and gab (or, as we sometimes refer to it, “stitch and bitch”). Last year we decided to do a Block of the Month featuring stars. Each month one of us chose a star block and I wrote [...]

Family block of the month

Several family members get together once a month to quilt and chat and eat and chat and eat… We have a block of the month project going, where we take turns choosing a 12″ star block. I write up the pattern and we all make the block using our own fabrics. November was block 9, [...]