The following tutorial will yield two 12 ½” (unfinished size) Maple Leaf quilt blocks from 2 fat quarters or yardage of your choice. The block itself is a simple nine patch made up for 4 half square triangles (hst), 4 squares (1 background, 3 main color, in this case red) and the block with the stem. The method I describe here…
Just a quick post today while I take a break from quilting my Seeds of Friendship Bolster Cover. I want to have this finished and on the bed in the guest bedroom before our oldest daughter and future son-in-law get here. The original plan had them arriving here Thursday but their flight out of Shanghai was delayed a few hours…
Can you believe the year is half over?!! Time to really focus on getting projects finished. I didn’t get nearly as many things done as I had listed on my 2015 Finish Along Q2 list; which I will admit was definitely overly ambitious. But I did manage to complete 3 small projects and two larger projects so I’m going to…
I had the hardest time choosing my “A Lovely Year of Finishes” Goal for May and then I realized that it only made sense to choose the one that I already had everything I needed to finish. So even though this isn’t my oldest UFO/WIP, I’m going to be working on my One Big Cabin quilt that I completed the…
I think I’ve got too many things on my list of things I want to get to this week! First up a new apron. I had purchased the fabric in the spring of 2011 with the intention of making an apron with it but life happened and later that year everything went into storage for three years. Usually when I…
With the 14th fast approaching, I decided to spend some evening TV watching time making a couple of Valentine’s Pips. They turned out so cute that yesterday with the sun shining in and providing great lighting, I held a little photo shoot and experimented with different ways to show them off. I’ve been looking for an excuse to add that…
I was going through all the pictures I took last week and realized that I had forgotten to post about the fun surprize in the form of a squishie that was waiting for me when I got home from Canada. While I was away getting our youngest settled into his second year of college, I got an e-mail from Impera…
I’m going to start off by saying I am ridiculously pleased with myself. Last night during FNSI, I was having trouble figuring out how I wanted to quilt the hot pads I had prepped and ready (see previous post.) I had toyed with the idea of free motion quilting them. For a while now I’ve been watching videos on…
Over the weekend, I got the flying zebra baby quilt and one of the child-sized quilts hand basted. Dave’s away on a contract for a few days, which means that it won’t matter if I have a larger quilt taking up residence on the dining room table for a day or two, so I decided to baste my scrappy nine…
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…