Earlier this year my guild, McKinney Modern Quilt Guild, started a new bee. I seem to have trouble saying no, because I quickly signed up. For my first set of blocks, I requested blocks made with this Blossom Heart Quilts tutorial in aqua/white/gray. I really loved the blocks I received! Last week I got the quilt back from Martha who quilted it. I quickly bound it and once I wash it it will be a perfect snuggle quilt.
Isn't it fun? Finished size is 60"x72" a good size for the couch!Saturday, December 7, 2024
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Creative Crossroads
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Here and There and Back again
Back in the spring, my friend Chris brought me this orphan block and said "let's do something together with this"
Until eventually we had a completed quilt top! I matchstick quilted it on my domestic machine, added some big stitches with 8 weight pearl cotton and bound it in lime green after auditioning many options...
Monday, September 2, 2024
Improv Challenge week 2
Are you ready for a new challenge prompt? Did you find time to play with prompt #1? Here's what I came up with...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Quilt Plano 2024
Earlier this month I enjoyed seeing the beautiful show put on by the Plano Quilt Guild. I entered four quilts in the show (all quilts hung, this is not a juried show). Both of my quilts in the group quilts category received honorable mention ribbons!
My friends were nice enough to let me contribute an improv panel for the back! So I had a tiny hand in four of this years group quilts, all of which ribboned! What fun.
There were so many beautiful quilts in the show. I wish I could share them all.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Improv Challenge
The other day over lunch my friend Chris and I were celebrating the near completion of a recent collaboration (more on that soon!) and wondering what we should do next. We tossed around lots of ideas and finally landed on a fun improv challenge. It will allow the two of us to make quilts simultaneously following the same biweekly prompts. It will be fun to see how different our quilts end up! Here's the really exciting part.... we'd love for you to play along.
Every other Monday Chris and I will each be spinning a wheel we've created on the app tiny decisions. My wheel will determine a technique/shape that is to be created. Chris will spin her color wheel twice, giving us two colors to work with. Use one, use both, add another color of your choosing... there really are no rules. During the next two weeks, work with the selected technique and colors. Make a quilt block, ten quilt blocks, add to a previous block, you get to choose.
Are you ready? Here is the first prompt for our challenge:
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Hippy Dippy Dotty collage
In May our guild hosted a fun workshop with Carol Morrissey to learn her Hippy Dippy Dotty collage method. I had great fun making my own small version....
This is the pile of fabric and die cut circles that went into my quilt