And that’s a wrap – other than clipping a few threads. I started this one sometime last year; it’s a sampler based off of several different quilts in Amy Ellis’ “Modern Heritage” book. She had a suggested layout and I followed it for the most part although I added in quite a bit of negative…
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post-Christmas update
Our quilt guild typically has a featured speaker at each monthly meeting and then the following day is a workshop where either a specific technique is taught, or perhaps we start or even finish a…
Happy Friday!
Woo hoo! I just saw this email from the fabulous Amy Ellis regarding my entry for the Curated Quilt mini. My daughter is home from college for a couple of weeks before she heads back for summer classes so we’ve been catching up on everything since the start of the semester. Just yesterday she asked…
Every Direction
So here’s the scoop. That block layout from yesterday was the entire quilt – aka mini (12″ quilt). The other day I saw that Amy Ellis was starting a new venture called Curated Quilts and the challenge was put forth to make a mini quilt, 10-16″ square, using specific colors from their palette. I had…
Block 98 – Fleur de Lei
Today’s blog post is a mashup of several projects – just individual blocks here and there. I bought a Quilter’s Planner at the end of the year to help me keep track of my quilting projects. Overall it’s worked well – I have probably used it more to track what I did each day after…
Block 90 – Juggling
This block started off so well. I cut a 7″ square block in the neutral (fabric was a Christmas present!) and then ironed some Heat ‘N Bond to the back of 3 pieces of fabric. I used my circle dies to cut 3 perfectly perfect circles in 3 different sizes. Then I used that Clover…
Greek blocks
The Splendid Sampler is winding down with just 14 blocks to go. Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt is fast and furious, running only through sometime in January typically. I’m finishing up the last 2 blocks for Leah Day’s quilt-as-you-go. I learn a lot from these large groups so when Amy Ellis started a group to make…
October was a very good month
Wow, today was full of great surprises from start to finish. Amy Ellis posted that we were ready to start the next block for her quilt sampler. This month is for large 18″ Greek cross blocks. I spent most of my lunch hour picking out fabric and finished one block before I had to get…