Getting this quilt top sewn together and then photographed turned into a bit of an adventure. Katherine over at Sew Me Something Good recently shared beautiful photographs she’d taken of her maple leaf quilt while on a fall nature walk. The whole time I was piecing the quilt I showed you on Wednesday I kept thinking of a creative place…
In addition to working on the edits/revisions on my novel, I’ve also been working on a little quilt that just makes me smile. The fabrics are so bright and happy and the appliquĂ© blocks are adorable. I bought the kit from the Heritage Designs Quilting and Needlework shop at Amana Colonies in Iowa. I did change things a bit when…
Originally I had only cut enough of the flying zebra fabric to make a baby quilt. But when I realized I had enough left to turn the rest of it into two more child-sized quilts if I added a couple of horizontal strips in a coordinating fabric between the repeating print sections, I decided to go ahead and a make…
My entry into the Bloggers Quilt Festival would certainly not qualify as the most beautiful or most intricately pieced or the most original. Its design is a simple one; flannel blocks from a bear print that I fussy cut alternating with a coordinating yellow flannel. Those blocks are framed with a single border cut from that same yellow flannel with…
I completed the green teddy baby quilt last Wednesday and was able to mail it off on our way out of town before our marathon trip to Canada. It’s making its way to a little one in Japan via the Quilters Newsletter “Quilts for Japan” Appeal. I received delivery confirmation that it had arrived Monday at Quilters Newsletter, well ahead…
Now that one of the larger secret Christmas projects is finished, I’ve decided to pull out an old WIP. I made this baby quilt top a little over three years ago. I actually made two of these; one with teddies on a yellow background and this one on the green because I wasn’t sure which I wanted to send to…