Jumping on the bandwagon

I’ve read a couple of blogs recently (crazy mom quilts and Quilt Dad) about an incredible flying geese quilt. There’s a Flickr group for those who would like to participate, and I’ve joined. I’m going to do it using the one seam dimensional flying geese method (tutorial here), but I recreated a couple of the [...]

Anything Goes swap

I’m participating in my first swap with the Swap Til You Drop group on Flickr. It’s a mini quilt swap – 15″ or smaller. I’ve only made one mini quilt, but I’m looking forward to working small. Here’s a look at the fabrics I’m planning to use:

I played around with possibilities for the design – [...]

Just in time for winter

The Icicles quilt top is done, quilted, and being bound as I type. (It’s nice to have a mom who enjoys binding.) Photos tomorrow, hopefully. I struggled with this one for far too long, trying to come up with an easy way to make it without foundation piecing. Silly me! Foundation piecing is easy, especially [...]

Heart Hug Quilt

A little over a year ago, my mom, aunts and I made a quilt for another aunt whose husband was seriously ill. We made a variety of paper pieced heart blocks in shades of blue and alternated them with neutral squares. We finished the last block and a few minutes later she called to tell [...]

Git ‘er Done, Part 3

My first really ambitious project was a Storm at Sea. I found the pattern in the More Quilts from the Quiltmaker’s Gift and I just loved the colors used in one of the samples. I cut all of those tiny little triangles, starched the heck out of them, pieced everything so carefully. I foundation pieced [...]