This is the most playful fun quilt I’ve made. It has “Strip Chunks” (low volume strip borders), Terry Rowland blocks and Plus Blocks. There’s a free pattern for the plus blocks, they finish at 3″, as do the Terry Rowland blocks. The Strip Chunks finish at 3″ wide. In the video below I explain how…
It’s so satisfying to finish a quilt, especially a bucket list quilt! I’ve wanted to make this one for a few years now, knowing when it was done it would be mine to keep. So playful, and the quilting is too. The back is a thrifted flat sheet that only cost a few dollars – the quilting turned it into something special.
20 blocks out of 72 are done! Scraps have taken over the cutting table, but I have a process of putting them away and getting them back out that makes it do-able. There’s 8 more blocks cut out sitting next to the machine. So happy I’ve publicly committed – this quilt will get done so…
Tomorrow I’ll be gifting the Gingham Upcycled Denim quilt. My sister built a little guest shed where I’ll be staying this weekend and I’d like to give a thank you to her. I love this quilt and plan to write a pattern for it (and make another one for myself). I had plenty of light…
If you’re thinking about making Halo, be sure to also watch the first video for different looks that can be achieved, cutting and preparation tips. I’ve made 15 blocks so far, each one gets easier and faster. My goal is to make 8 blocks a week – each block currently takes about an hour to…
I’m obsessed with Jen, she hand stitches everything! I won’t be doing that, but her scrappy style is unparalleled. I fell in love with “Halo”. I bought her book “Jenny from One Block” which has several patterns and includes paper templates. her book is available on Etsy here, but also is available widely on the…
I am at the point in my quilting journey where I need to get serious about a scrap plan. I do cut up scraps etc but without a direction or purpose, I just cut standard sizes. I want to be more purposeful about it, which means deciding what I want to make with scraps ahead…
Terry Rowland is awesome, another of my favorite content creators in the quilting genre. Her Temperature Quilt is wildly popular – you can see it doesn’t use light or white on the outside which gives it a dramatic effect. She assigned specific colors to temperature ranges, and made a block for each day based on…