Valentine’s Day Mystery – Day 4
by lsmith | Feb 15, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Home Maker Block The fourth clue in our Valentine’s Day Mystery is the Home Maker Block by Clara Stone, Practical Needlework, ca. 1906. It follows the progression of Lover’s Knot, Wedding Bouquet and Farmer’s Wife. In Old Fashioned Love, women...
Valentine’s Mystery – Day 3
by lsmith | Feb 13, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Farmer’s Wife Block Most old romances start with flirtation, love and marriage. Our first two blocks – Lover’s Knot and Wedding Bouquet. cover that. The next block represents what happened after the wedding – in many cases – a woman...
Valentines Day Project – Day Two
by lsmith | Feb 11, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Lover’s Knot What Valentine’s quilt would be complete without the mention of Love? There are several traditionla blocks that represent love. I needed one that would compliment the Wedding Bouquet block from yesterday. It Lover’s Knot by Nancy Cabot,...
A New valentine’s Day Project
by lsmith | Feb 10, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Wedding Bouquet Block For Valentine’s Day, a quilt in hues of pink and white, made of blocks about love and relationships, seem so appropriate. At least, that was my thinking when I designed my latest quilt. As with several of my other quilts I used traditional...