Oops. That’s all I have. Just “oops”. I’m making 2 quilts for the boys based on a double bed. One boy has a twin but I wanted them to be the same size so I’m making them both for the double bed. I went to QuiltMaker’s site for suggested sizes and failed to notice –…
Category: quilts for family
why I love Accuquilt
We’re in the last 3 months of the year and that means any quilts I might make for Christmas presents needs to be started. I can work under a tight deadline, but I prefer not to. I had a request to make one of my nephews a quilt but what my family didn’t know was…
Purple star – finished!
And another one is finished, except for of course the threads but then again I always put that off for a rainy day. I had it all done but the binding I think by this weekend. I originally had more of a blue/purple for the actual purple part of this quilt but this is for…
finally on to the binding~
I knew the schedule at work was about to ratchet up and boy did it. I was lucky if I had 30-60 minutes after work each day to spend on this quilt. A lunch break was a distant memory. It will be like that for the next 3-4 weeks but it should calm down again…
Block 64 – Rising Star
Wow. Let me just say that again slowly. W-o-w. If I thought Jane had some tiny pieces in her blocks; if I thought that paper pieced dress had some tiny pieces…..there weren’t many of them – just 12 – but those little white pieces in the middle? They start out as 1″ squares. I know…
Block #63 – The Icing on the Cake
I did officially get all 25 blocks completed and the border sewn on. Overall I did get better at piecing it as I went along although I confess that one of the iffiest blocks was block # 24. For each row, I picked out the one that I thought looked the best and put it…
mysterious creature
A friend of mine works at the quilt store, so I generally try to plan my trips around the days that she’s working which was the case yesterday. With 3 (now 1.5!) blocks left to piece I thought it was about time to buy the fabric for the back of the quilt I’ve been working…
4 rows and change
I finished up my 4th row yesterday evening on the purple star quilt and then kept right on going. I’ve finally found my rhythm on making the blocks. Each block is made of 4 identical sets, and each of those sets includes 4 units. I’ve found that making an entire row – 20 sets –…
I think I’ve had the same goal for 3 or 4 days now. Finish block 60 of the Splendid Sampler, and finish the 3rd row of the purple star quilt. I finally got one of those completed yesterday – yay! The picture of this is actually rotated which hopefully explains why the left side –…
9 down, 16 to go
I wanted to get a quick idea of how these would look together, so I went out of order and sewed 2 rows of 2. That means that I needed to finish four more sets of 2 before I can get back to sewing these one row at a time. So…for now I need to…
Here’s why I changed fabric
It’s not that I didn’t like the original fabric I had picked out. Rather, the quilt pattern really has two distinct patterns that weave in and out and it makes more of an impact with there being a distinct difference between the blue and the purple. And when you see just one block like this…