This past weekend was the Minnesota Quilters Show in Duluth, MN. I didn’t attend any of the lectures or classes this time, but I was able to take Friday off work to drive up and explore the show. It was definitely worth the drive (~2.5hrs each way) to see some of these spectacular quilts. This is my favorite of all the quilts at the show. ...
I finished the Mario Quilt this week! I used fusible grid to make this process really quick and painless: Fusible grid is a thin piece of interfacing that has iron-on adhesive on one side and grid lines printed on the other. There are different brands of fusible grid, and it comes in different grid sizes. For this quilt, I used a 2″ fusible grid from...
First, I’d like to thank everyone that gave me their thoughts on how to get over my quilter’s block. I think Pattern 103 is just going to go on hold for a little bit as I work through it. I apologize in advance if this post gets to be too personal. Last Wednesday, one of my good friends I’d fallen out of touch with in...
I feel I have a quilting version of Writer’s Block…so Quilter’s Block? The cause is Pattern #103, but I’m not quite sure why I’m not able to make progress on it. It’s not technically a hard block, and it looks amazing in the simulated photos, like nothing I’ve seen done before. But why can’t I seem to get myself to make progress and actually work...
Did anyone catch last week that I didn’t finish sewing my basket case quilt top like I said I was going to? After I posted last week’s post, I noticed I didn’t ever do that. So I sat down and started sewing immediately to get that done even if I was a day or two late. I’ve gotten comments about how people like my weekly...
First of all, it’s the last week of the 2017 New Quilt Blogger’s Blog Hop. Make sure to check out all 3 hosts to see who are getting introduced this week as well as enter for some really cool prizes from the sponsors. Beth @ Cooking Up Quilts Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl Leanne @ shecanquilt I for one am still working on replying to everyone via email...
Surprise! Double post this week because of the fabulous blog hop I’m taking part in! See yesterday’s post for my introduction and to visit the other awesome bloggers who are also a part of the post. Also forgot to mention yesterday that there are some giveaways on the host’s blogs from some amazing sponsors! What fun! ~*~*~ Last week, I missed my regular Tuesday post...
Yesterday, I mailed by Maker’s Birthday Bash present to my partner! I am so excited to share my process on how I made the diamond quilt I posted a few weeks ago. Diamonds are the birthstone of April babies, so what better quilt to make! The Diamond is paper pieced from a sketch I made on graph paper. I drew and redrew the diamond until...
Today, I was going to talk about the design process for this Diamonds quilt I made for the Maker’s Birthday Bash swap. However, I realized it might be better to talk about how to paper piece first before going into designing a paper piecing pattern! I’ll discuss the design process of this quilt in 2 weeks after it’s in the mail to my partner! It’s...
I was very motivated to finish Chic Country this week to gain access back to my design wall for my next pattern. There is nothing quite as motivating as just needing the space. Chic Country was a pattern that has been on my to do list for since April, 2016. After taking the class from the Sew Kind of Wonderful sisters, Helen and Sherilyn, at...
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