Before I forget, if you like Libs Elliott’s quilt designs, she is having a huge 50% off sale on downloadable patterns right now. You can buy them online at http://www.libselliott.com/shop/ . I bought 3 for $5 CAD each and in USD that was – well I don’t remember; maybe $13? Anyway, insanely cheap. She has…
Category: Techniques
Block 83 – Minnesota Maze
Back to work tomorrow after almost a full week off. That was a nice break! The college student just had a short break so we didn’t go out of town but enjoyed the time we had together at home. I still need to do the EPP block for The Splendid Sampler. I haven’t forgotten; I…
Block 81 – With Love From
I really love this block, and that isn’t just a play on words. How many things in the world could be solved with just a little bit of love? Almost everything. Maybe everything, now that I think about it.
Block 79 – Spool of Inspirational Threads
When I was sewing this block, I was mystified by the length of the top and the bottom as it relates to the “thread”. It seemed like the spools should match the thread. But now that I’m done I am the first to admit it looks better this way. Two minutes into a new spool…
Block 80 – Heartstring Star
Oops; my completed blocks to posts are out of order. I try not to cram too much into any single post so I’ll save my spool of thread for tomorrow or so. This is yesterday’s block by Elizabeth Dackson. Once again I’m looking at a picture of a block that I did not iron before…
use less batting with a long arm
I feel like I watched roughly a bazillion YouTube videos, both from Handi Quilter as well as professional long-armers, etc. on tips and tricks for using this machine. It literally took me a few minutes to get the first quilt loaded and ready to go and I didn’t have any big issues once I started…
Block 77 – Prism
I didn’t see any good reason to cut out 1″ strips to make this block when I could easily paper piece it. Rather than lay it out in EQ7, I just made 2 copies of the pattern, cut 1/4″ around each of the 2 main sections and paper pieced from there. I realized about halfway…
Block 71 – First Stitch
If I can’t confess this on my own blog, then where can I safely write about how this block came about? I used probably the most scientific way possible to pick fabrics for this block. I…used the scraps I found…on the floor! Please, someone – anyone! – tell me your sewing area is a disaster…
Block 70 – Bows
The pattern for this block calls for 17 pieces for each quadrant. Or rather, 68 pieces for the entire 6″ block. Some of the pieces in here are 1/2 of 1 square inch! I combined the center block with 2 of the triangles so I did cut out a few of the tiny ones. Unfortunately,…
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…
Block #65- Stripe and Flowers
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Not really; I just always think of that musical any time I say “a funny thing happened….”. My parents started taking me to the theatre at the university near where I grew up when I was probably in grade school; does anyone else have quirky…
Block 67 – Bobbin Chase
I’m sewing these Splendid Sampler blocks out of order again. I was actually going to complete Thursday’s first until I saw that today’s block was paper pieced. I used regular copy paper to print out the pattern for the star quilt. Someone suggested to me a couple of weeks ago to try newspaper print –…