It's time for another round of Blockheads and this time is extra special. I’m so excited to announce that I am a new Blockheads designer for Blockheads 5. Yep, you read that right! I could not be more excited to be bringing you adorable star blocks alongside your favorite Moda designers. This is the first year I have ever participated in Blockheads and I’m jumping for joy! My block, Starling, releases in March. I’ll be sure to share all about it when it releases. I don't sew star blocks often, s

Starry Path is a beautiful block. It originally appeared in the Detroit Free Press in 1936. Today, it is even easier (AND more precise) when you print the shapes on fabric with Inklingo. I've been playing with different layouts. This just uses Starry Path blocks but there are many more…

I've decided to write this little "set on point" tutorial for quilters. I love the look of diagonal settings, but every time I go to lay my...

I'm working on possible settings for the Basket Block Quilt Along and I'd like your help. Check out the setting options below and then vote in the poll at the bottom of this post. I'll leave the poll open for a month, to give me time to write up the instructions before we get to…

Show off your large-scale prints and add a WOW factor to your quilts. Take advantage of the surprising designs that appear as you stack and cut triangles, diamonds, flat pyramids, gem shapes, and more. Each beautiful block design frames a unique kaleidoscope hexagon, for stunning results! Select from 38 hexagonal blocks, 7 setting triangles, 12 quilt layouts, and 5 pieced borders, plus get Sara and Marci's tips for picking the best fabric for this technique, lining up stacked repeats, and cutting shapes to take advantage of large-scale print fabric. Fair warning: you may never want to make a quilt any other way again!

Dorothy used 12” sampler blocks for the centers of the 18” BQ2 blocks. Sandi did the great circular quilting.

Whew!  I finished my first block of the month with a mere couple hours to spare!  It isn't like I didn't have plenty of time to finish this ...

Here is my newest Block of the Month! Modern Power of Nine You might be wondering… What the heck is all this ‘Power of Nine’ business in a twelve block quilt? Well, every block in this quilt is a nine patch block! Isn’t it a beauty?  Here are the Quilt ‘Deets’ Designed and Pieced by… Read More »Block of the Month ~ Power of Nine

Hola! The block of the month is wrapped up and as you are all working on finishing your 12 or 13 blocks I want to share a few layouts that I created while considering how to finish my own quilt. If you look back at this post, there are two possible layouts there that I…

COMPLETED BLOCK OF THE MONTH PROGRAMMES Below are Block of the Month programmes which have run their course and all monthly instalments are now available. If you don't want to get all of the...

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Tradtional and Non-Traditional layout ideas for sampler quilts. How to sew quilt blocks into a quilt. Quilt block layout & finshing ideas.

The Starburst Quilt Along is now over, but the  entire pattern is now available for purchase . Welcome to week one of our Starburst Quilt ...

Pictures - Turquoise and Brown Sampler....quilted by Charisma - Judi sent me this sampler quilt. Isn't it beautiful? It's all batiks. I decided to so my usuall block work...and make each block indivisual but do enough of the same type of quilting to make it all look cohesive...I broke up all different designs in each

I happened across one of my posts the other day written in October 2012, a little over five years ago when my blog was in its first year. I was writing

I have many pictures of the quilts from QuiltCon 2015 to show you as well as my thoughts on modern quilting

So, after the post on the Arabesque quilt, I was thinking about the others I'd made from those classes.   They've all been given away to fam...