Tagged: hst

Starstruck Challenge!

This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a quilt that incorporate STARS!  The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik.  I love stars and you’ll tend to see lots of different stars in my quilts.  This month I decided to use a new technique as well to create scrappy half square triangles called accordion sewing!  I picked a Carpenter...

Friday Foto Fun

Okay so the name of the post is definitely a work in progress…  I am starting a weekly Linky party to share progress photos from the week and use it as motivation to keep moving forward in each of our respective projects!  So everyone is virtually sewing together and sharing progress on Fridays.  This will start next week, I hope you join in on the...

Another week gone by!

Another week gone by!

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you had a productive week.  Can you believe it’s already August?! I’m so ready for fall weather.  Last weekend at my last minute retreat at Stitch Supply Co., I met a great group of women from the Chicago Sewing Social Group. It was a blast of a weekend as well as super productive!  If you have ever had reservations of...

Barn Quilt Block Tutorial

Barn Quilt Block Tutorial

I have no idea what this quilt block is called, but this is what I came up with for the #BCBarnQuiltSwap4 quilt for my partner.  It is made using Half Square Triangles (HST), a single Hourglass block, and no waste flying geese blocks. Here’s how you make the 16″ finished block with the colors referencing the block above: Cutting instructions: Dark Blue: Cut 1 -...