Hexerley Swaitza
Don't worry about the title of this post yet, it's basically gibberish. This is a post about this little quilt I made: Ta da! Okay, you know I'd rather show a quilt in progress than spring it on you when…
The Arne Quilt
One of my quilts is in the Spring 2013 issue of Modern Quilts Unlimited! This is one of my all-time favorites. Yay! The Arne Quilt is an improv pattern inspired by this textile design by Arne Jacobson. I first…
Shibori Itajime Quilt
My design wall got a huge dose of awesome slapped up there today! Fun, right? These will all be sewn together to make a quilt for my cousin Kelly, who got married in October On the big day, I gave the…
Pillows
You'll have to forgive me if I end up being short on words here... I sometimes find it tricky to say much about a project if I'm blogging about it a while after I've completed it. Why the delay? I…
mega XPLUS is pieced!
It was mega fun, and now piecing is mega done! I can't decide which is my favorite block, but it's probably this one: In her tutorial for this Setsuko Inawaga block, Badskirt points out that the X-part of the block…
Uncharacteristic behavior (part 1)
Oh my goodness, I'm making a quilt from a pattern! My friend Brenda (of Just a Bit Frayed and Pink Castle Fabrics) got me going on a quilt-along via Instagram hashtag and Flickr group. It's an informal thing where anyone…
A Whole Lotta Log Cabins
Remember when this: became this? If not, check out that that old post: Glimma by Lotta Jansdotter Well, now I've got this: It's a generous twin-sized quilt at 68" x 95" It's always fun to finish a major stage in a…
practicing a variety of quilting designs on a simple quilt top
Quilting is probably my least favorite step in the process of making a quilt. It's also, probably because I send quilts out pretty often, my biggest problem growth area. I just haven't put in the time on quilting that…
Quilt 489
I submitted this quilt to Quilt Con this morning! It was Quilt 489. Of course, I think of this quilt not as "489" but as "The Full Stops Quilt" since it is based on a paper collage by Anna Betts…
Finding and Making Fabric for Stinky’s Quilt
To execute my plan for Stinky’s quilt (which you can read about in this post) I need quite a bit of fabric in six categories: 1. Dark teal 2. Medium teal 3. Light (mostly white) teal 4. Light (mostly white)…