Can you believe it is almost St. Patrick’s Day? The year of 2023 is flying by. However, as quilters we love those Irish Chains patterns and designs. Simple and elegant. Or homey and comfortable. Maybe modern. How about in Amish colors? Or green and white? So why not celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by showing off a three Irish Chains quilts? This is the perfect quilt for beginner quilters, or any quilter wanting an easy pattern to make. Best of all,…
Do you need a fun, fast, and simple project or gift item? My granddaughter’s eighth birthday is next week. She loves helping in the kitchen. I decided to use some cute fabrics from my stash and make her a couple aprons. Thanks to YouTube, I was able to make the birthday aprons. Those of you who know me personally know that I absolutely hate making any clothing item. Yes, I can make clothing, but that doesn’t mean I like to…
What do you do for a wedding gift for a cousin who waited forever while finding the right guy and has a complete house already?? Make a wedding quilt of course!! This wedding quilt was simple and personal and super easy to make. Cousin and hubby like to do road trips on the motorcycle, so that was the theme I went with. It’s not like they got a duplicate of this. They loved it. Finished size: 70″ square. For this…
Grandma’s Flower Garden – Many quilters like to do patterns that are vintage or traditional. Some like to use vintage or reproduction fabrics. That is what makes this small quilt fun – it is all 1930’s fabrics. All the fabric in this quilt is from feed sacks or 1930’s fabric my grandma gave me. My grandpa worked at the feed mill and he would watch for several bags that matched. He would buy the feed in those matching bags and…
Getting more time to quilt – in our crazy, busy lives this can pose a real problem. People have emailed me recently asking me how I get so much time to quilt each day. I don’t have any more time than you do. However, I have learned to be a very good time manager and multi-tasker. We must make each minute count. Here are some simple things to help get more time to quilt each day. Don’t: compare what you…
Life is busy. I am behind on my quilting projects, especially the mystery quilt I started back in November from Bonnie Hunter. But at least the mystery slowly progresses and has not stopped. My list of quilt projects does not need to include any new UFOs. I like to make mystery quilts because they are not my normal type of patterns and color combinations. Outside the box can be a good thing. Currently I am working on week 4 and…
In the last few days of 2021, we started on a hard road through a family crisis. As we discovered quickly, this is not going to be an easy journey to make. This is going to be a long-term change and careful steps will need to be taken each day. However, quilting during hard times is a wonderful way to help physically, emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. Quilting has seen me through many adventures, and both good and bad times over…
We are in the middle of a family emergency. I will not be posting today on the blog beyond this note but want to remind everybody to keep on quilting. I am working on the mystery quilt as time allows. Happy quilting. PLEASE NOTE: ALL PHOTOS AND WRITTEN CONTENT ARE MY OWN UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
How to Make Easy Coasters – seriously. They are quick and easy, and they can be made from fabric that is personal to the person receiving them or that you just like. Step 1: Choose at least two fabrics. Step 2: Iron the fabric. Step 3: Cut four 5″ squares of both fabrics. Lay out four sets of squares right sides together. Step 4: Lay the four sets of 5″ squares on batting. I like the batting to be bigger…
TRIANGLE CHARM QUILT – So my quilting buddy (SB) and I had the brilliant idea to do some charm quilts using the same fabric packs, but we did different patterns or ways to put the charm pieces together. I simply took my 5″ squares and made half square triangles from them. I added enough “charm” pieces from my own stash to make the top big enough to suit me. The green sashing and brown posts were out of my stash….
