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...
Cutting Diamonds
by lsmith | Sep 15, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Many of us possess quilt rulers that we use to cut strips, squares, and rectangles. Most of these have a 45-degree line on it. If you are like me, you put that line on the seam of your half square triangles (HST) to make sure the halves stay even when you trim the...
Fall Favorites
by lsmith | Sep 13, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Fall brings some of my favorite things – cool nights, colorful foliage, the smell and taste of hot apple pie, and the sound of geese flying south. I tried to capture some of these in Fall Favorites. The 56-inch square quilt features the Apple Pie block and the...Queen of the Prairie
by lsmith | Sep 12, 2020 | Quilting Tips
Dear Stella is releasing a new fabric collection called “Poppy Prairie” in October. The collection has sweet images of farms, chickens, tractors and, of course, poppies! Queen of the Prairie is designed for this fabric line to work with the fun, farmhouse...