Have you ever made a bottle block? They’re so easy: Take a rectangle of fabric, add black triangles to each corner, add a lid and, there you go, a bottle. Now take lots of bright, happy bug fabrics and you have the…
This one was made for my son Dan’s 18th birthday. The block couldn’t be much more simple, it’s basically the first round of a log cabin. Make up a bunch of them and set with plain squares on point. In these colors,…
This pattern is called “Crack the Whip” and, like the Palm Branch quilt I mentioned yesterday, is also paper-pieced. However, I made it myself and didn’t annoy or frustrate anyone else with the project. I finished this little wallhanging in January of…
This was a project my quilting group worked on. The pattern is called Palm Branch and it’s paper-pieced. I designed the pattern using the block library in my Electric Quilt Design Software. It was so complicated I think they were all mad at…
Isn’t this Beatrix Potter print adorable? I fell in love with it and had to have some. The pattern is called “Pipsqueak Picnic” and can be found in Mary Hickey’s book, Sweet and Simple Baby Quilts. The block setting isn’t exactly simple…
This fun pattern is called Topsy-Turvy Sailboats and it’s from a book called Sweet and Simple Baby Quilts, which I use a lot. You could do this setting with any block, just make sure to keep your triangles organized, or else your blocks…
This pattern was from a magazine which I no longer have. If you reconize it, please let me know so I can give the designer credit. It was a special labor of love for special friends of ours on the birth of…
Another pattern from Sweet and Simple Baby Quilts, this one called Pink Lemonade. I love how you can get such strong secondary designs with very basic blocks.
I designed this one as a commission for a friend. She wanted a special birthday gift for her daughter. All she knew was she wanted blue toile. I took it from there, using Electric Quilt Design Software to experiment with various layouts. It’s…
A “rag” quilt made for a wedding gift. My hands hurt just to look at it. All that snipping. Ouch. All the snipping aside, it’s a very simple pattern: Cut 8″ squares of fabric and sandwich them right sides out with 6″ squares…
