It feels like both. I’ve been working all week to get patterns uploaded to Payhip. It’s been an ordeal, but I think I’ve done it, correctly, I hope. Yesterday a package arrived from Northcott with fabric for several of the designs that have been in their Look Books. First is Santa’s Tree Farm, see it […]
A new pattern in the works
I’ve been playing around with this design for at least 5 years (the poor thing is getting gray hair waiting to be finished). I’ve submitted it to several fabric manufacturers in the past, but until now, no one has wanted it. I dug out the fabric I had set aside for it, it’s an Island […]
Border prints–love ’em or hate ’em???
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 […]
The long-awaited Timeless Treasures Hen House fabric has arrived!
I’m finally able to start the cover quilt for my Whirlwind pattern. The fabric was delivered earlier this week. I had another project to finish and now I can start this. (Ok, I still have a bit to do on it, but I can’t wait!) The fabric is gorgeous, as usual, and I will enjoy […]
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 […]
Correction to Tied in Knots
Page 4 should say Step 7 — Quilt and bind All the info is correct, just the step number was wrong.