Childhood Cancer Awareness
by lsmith | Sep 25, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Most people don’t think about childhood cancer until it strikes someone you know. A few years ago, my neighbor’s daughter started her first day of kindergarten. The next day, she spiked a fever and was hospitalized shortly thereafter. She was diagnosed...
Design Wall Stability
by lsmith | Sep 23, 2020 | Quilting Tips
For quite a while, I have relied on my flannel design wall during my quilt construction. It helps keep the pieces in order and enables me to see progress. Unfortunately, the only way for me to hang it was with tacks in the wall, over a doorway. It was the only open...
Sante Fe Summer
by lsmith | Sep 18, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Native American Motif from EQ8 Every month EQ8 has a block spotlight, where we are challenged to use a new block. I love this because it generally pushes me out of my comfort zone and adds variety to my designs. This month, the challenge was to use the Native American...
Making Stars
by lsmith | Sep 16, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Yesterday, I shared how to cut perfect diamonds. What do you do make with those perfect diamonds? Stars! Eight-pointed stars often scare new quilters and even some seasoned ones. So what scares them, one of three things: Cutting the diamonds, which we addressed in...