Border prints and I haven’t been getting along too well lately. First, it was Northcott’s Black Cat Capers in Goose Chase. (You can read about that fiasco here.) Today I went back to Whirlwind in Timeless Treasure’s Hen House collection. Once again, I discovered that I can do more in EQ7 than I can with […]
Little Fawn and Friends Chain of Stars
I started on my cover quilt for the Chain of Stars quilt with the Dear Stella Little Fawn and Friends fabric line. I hate making half-square triangles, but I love the look of a quilt with them. I have them sewed and cut apart now I need to trim them to size and get rid […]
Chain of Stars
Chain of Stars is one of my first patterns. First time I made it was with Timeless Treasures’ Mini Marina fabric. I then made it for a kit sample for the Old Creamery Quilt Shop. This fabric was something “Lyon”, I don’t remember who’s line it is. There was a really cute panel to go […]
Correction to Northcott Black Cat Capers Goose Chase
I has been brought to my attention that the quilt on the cover of Goose Chase with the Northcott Black Cat Capers fabric cannot be made as shown with the fabric listed. I don’t get fabric from Northcott ahead of time for samples, I go by the jpgs of the line. For this I went […]
Whirlwind
The Whirlwind blocks are made of Y-blocks. I make them by drawing lines on both diagonals of a square, placing it right sides together with another square. Sew a quarter inch to the left of the line until you reach the center and the other diagonal line. Then sew on the right side of the […]
More Floaters
I finished Floaters yesterday. I used Crayola Ultra Clean Washable Markers to mark my quilting lines. This is loose quilting, just enough to hold it all together. The quilt is in the washer with a load of towels, in hot water. It will go in the dryer with the towels, on high heat. I want […]
Floaters–a new pattern
I’ve been working on a new pattern. When I did Goose Chase with Timeless Treasure’s Cotton Blossom fabric, I had leftovers. I designed it with a mitered border of about 6″??. When the fabric arrived I was sorry that I hadn’t planned for the entire width of the border print, but I couldn’t change, because […]
Receding
I had the pleasure of designing a tablerunner with Island Batik fabrics. The fabric is Mystery and is shipping to stores now. The pattern is Receding. It is 42″ x 17″. I made several samples with fabric from my stash before making the “real” one with the Mystery fabric. Some looked good, some not-so-good. This […]
Another holiday quilt
I wanted to make the Christmas tree panel quilt next. I have it on my design wall so I have a Christmas tree in my sewing room. Once again, I wanted to make it reversible. I knew I could piece a heart with Log Cabin blocks. I used EQ7 to determine the size of blocks […]
Holiday wallhangings
When I was looking for fabric for the dresser scarf recently, I rediscovered fabric I had forgotten I had. I am 99.99% sure all of these came from Mill Ends Textiles in St. Cloud many years ago. Here are two. This is another. I decided that the Nativity scene would be the first one I […]