The best place to start with the Green Tea and Sweet Beans quilt is with the initial challenge: drafting the templates. The back of the book has all of the templates you need for every block in the book. But they are on double sided paper and need a seam allowance added. So, I start…
Green Tea and Sweet Beans
I have been working on a big project. Jen Kingwell is one of my favorite pattern designers and I’ve wanted to try one of her sampler quilts for over a year now. Since my scrap basket was overflowing, I thought now would be a great time to start. Her version is absolutely fabulous (and her…
Finishing Frenzy
I’m not sure what it is about fall, but as I feel the year wind down, the push to finish things gets impossible to resist. During our recent move, most of my projects got piled into bins and boxes and safely tucked into a storage unit. And after the transition, as I was unpacking I…
Clover Sunshine: Alison Glass Designs Blog Hop!
** There is a pattern for this quilt here 🙂 I am thrilled to be playing along on the Alison Glass Designs Blog Hop today! We are celebrating her upcoming release Clover Sunshine this week. I can’t think of a prettier fabric line that has come along recently. This one is just so…. happy. It’s…
Bangles and Bling
You may remember that way back here I posted this little work in progress. It has been, um, ten weeks or so since I started this, but it has finally turned into a finished top. That’s half the battle, right? This pattern is designed by Sarah Fielke in her new book Hand Quilted With Love….
Starflower: A New Quilt Top (and Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!)
I finished piecing my star flower quilt Sunday night and I am really happy with how it turned out. I hurried outside for a picture before it started to rain a bit, so please forgive the unpressed, mostly finished quilt pictures. I was thinking of making a pattern for this, but I’ve had so many…