Mustache QUilt
I am excited to announce that the Mustache Quilt has been updated to include Dear Stella’s Chop It Like Its Hot fabric collection. This collection will be released to shops November 2020. This is one of several designs that Dear Stella chose to highlight their...
Quilt Project Overload!
Do you have more than three quilt projects in the works? Do you have one big project that has stalled? Do you lack motivation to tackle it because it is just so overwhelming??? I think we have all been there unless you are blessed to be an super organized and motived...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
