This quilt was both a joy and a challenge. The joy was working with my friend to decide the pattern and style of quilt she wanted. The challenge lay in learning new techniques. I had not worked much with triangles and never diamonds before this one. Nor had I ever made a quilt with quite …
My October break this year did not go as I hoped or planned. In a flurry of angst, with too much time unexpectedly on my hands, I made this quilted tapestry of sorts. It took about four days from start to finish and I didn't do much else in those four days. I started with …
I really wasn't sure what I was doing for this blanket. In fact, it wasn't meant as a blanket at all to start. I had originally been scrolling through Pintrest and was drawn to a handful of modern art quilts based on the half-square triangle. I happened to have a bunch of bright shweshwe prints …
My brother and his wife recently had their sixth baby (a boy). That of course precipitated a baby blanket. The timing of these babies always ends up influencing the final product, of course. My nephew arrived in February, right around the time I discovered free-motion quilting online. In order to explore free-motion, I researched and …
I decided this year to make fun, colorful bags as graduation presents. All of these are based on three-step "origami" pattern that I found on this website. Simple, quick, and fun! The last one in this set of pictures was a little different in that I made it from some old fabric that a friend …
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