I'm almost caught up on all my pre-Christmas sewing. I have one more quilt to share. I guess that means I need to get busy basting my quilt tops. This is a very simple quilt and came together pretty quickly. I wanted stripes and I wanted to use my solids. I love how it turned out. I've already given this one away, and forgot to measure anything, but I think the stripes are all 2 inches wide. I wanted to keep them all the same width for some uniformity, but it would probably look pretty cool…

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It's been a year since the Crosscut Quilt-Along, and high time to host another. Oh and yeah, I've been getting some prodding about that...

Happy New Year, everyone! One of my goals for 2022 is to blog more, so here I am with a couple of quilts to share. "Rio Linda" 54" x 70" The story behind this quilt is fun. I gave a Zoom lecture on scraps to a guild in upstate New York that had been organized by a blog reader (Hello, Linda!!). In my remarks I mentioned the rule that I use for myself to prevent my scraps from overtaking the world. The rule is that if a scrap basket starts mounding at all, if the drawer won't close or a lid…

If you are looking for a super quick quilt make OR an interesting yet simple backing, have I got the project for you. This pattern calls for any fabric which has a wider Width of Fabric (WOF) - at least 53" and means you can whip up a decent size throw (78" x 78") in no time! For this project, I used 100% linen which y

Tara Faughnan spoke to our guild the end of November. Several of us joined her at the San Jose Museum of Textiles and Quilts for the latest exhibit highlighting some of their collection. Tara Faughnan admires Koi Diptych by Tim Harding With it's long narrow columns, Tim Harding's Koi Diptych has aspects of Chinese Coins but despite looking at the details for quite a while, I'm still unsure how he constructed this masterpiece. Parts I would have sewn on at the end were some of the first…

bailey raha on Instagram: "Ali’s birthday quilt :: @merchantandmills linen + hand quilted with lilac sashiko thread :: pattern inspo from the ever wonderful @folkfibers :: for everyone who’s asked my camera roll tells me this quilt took 25 days to make (which also includes working full time + sleeping + having a 5 day stomach virus + normal life stuff) i used to keep track of project hours but it felt way too tedious and not accurate. conceptualizing the piece often takes just as much (if…

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