Hi, all! May! The lovely month of May has arrived, with beautiful springtime weather to enjoy and the end of this year's Hands2Help Challenge in sight. Today we have another guest blogger joining us - Anja from Nova Scotia, who blogs at Anja Quilts! Anja is always creating something beautiful, it seems, and she has a wonderful tutorial for us today. So now I will turn the blog over to her! *&*&*&*&*&*&* Thanks to Sarah for hosting another year of Hands2Help and for the opportunity to guest…

Looking for scrappy strip quilt patterns? Here ya go! The first question would be - got scraps?! I bet you do!

The week between Christmas and New Year's I pin basted four quilts, preparing them for machine quilting. Today I am sharing the third finish of the four. I made this quilt from rectangles I found in a box of scraps from a quilt I made a number of years ago. There were a lot more rectangles than I remembered, so I started randomly placing them on my design wall and created this top. This was pure mindless sewing, which is needed on occasion! The machine quilting was purely mindless, too. I…

A list of jelly roll quilt patterns. A combination of free patterns and paid patterns.

well, that is the premise anyway!! the jelly roll 1600 quilt is comprised of a bundle of coordinating fabric pre-cut into 2 1/2 inch wi...

A free quilting tutorial for a scrappy strip quilt block, how to make a strips quilt, quilt block ideas, scrappy quilt block tutorial

Welcome to finish it up Friday! This week, I completed my 300th quilt (baby size or larger) to date! I started quilting in 2000, so that m...

Oh, my word…Laurie has been a busy beaver. I have LOTS of quilts to share with you today and all are from Laurie. I don’t know who made the tops but my, oh my, if you have a scrap buc…

Learn how to make a string quilt using leftover strips from your stash. If you have strips of fabric that are either from a collection (think jelly roll) or from scraps, the string quilt is

Are you all done with your one a day blocks? It's time to assemble your quilt top. Before jumping in, I think it's necessary to state that t...