Star Filling

Star Filling

Last week, I shared how to make diamond and turn them into stars.  Now, we are going to fill those stars so that we have a beautiful square block for a quilt. If you look at the star, I mean the fabric one, not the one in the sky, you will notice two different...
Childhood Cancer Awareness

Childhood Cancer Awareness

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

Design Wall Stability

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

Sante Fe Summer

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

Making Stars

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...