All the projects currently on my desk are gifts for folks who likely read this blog, so instead of showing my workdesk today, I’m showing you a few quilts I’ve recently completed. My oldest son’s birthday was last weekend and I made…
Since my worktable looks remarkably the same as it did last week, I thought I’d share with you a different work surface. My husband finished building this sewing table for me last fall. A little over a year ago I started shopping…
Today’s desk shows my preparation for getting serious about learning how to improve my machine quilting. Last fall a fellow quilter recommended Diane Gaudynski’s Guide To Machine Quilting. I checked it out of the library and had to agree, it was fantastic. So I…
I received a phone call a while back from a young lady who had spent three years with the Peace Corps in Tanzania. She had had to leave suddenly, and the only souvenirs of her time consisted of several t-shirts and some…
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 pattern was purchased on a quilt group field trip to Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, New Hampshire – definitely a destination for any quilter! It’s called “Pumpkin Patch” by the Pottery Collection, Table Quilts by Rabbit Run. Instead of doing all black cats like in…
