Guest Post – Jenny Satterthwait
Laura Heine “Painterly” collage method I have been a ‘traditional’ quilter since 1995 when I took my first class. We lived in Aiken, SC, at the time and so I attended the NC Quilt Symposium for several years and loved being exposed to all the wonderful...
Jungle Flower Power
Jungle Flower It was time for another EQ8 Block Challenge. This month’s block was Jungle Flower. It is a 4 x 4 combination of drunkard’s path blocks. Drunkard’s path blocks are quarter circles inset within a square. If you are very good at curved...
Sapphire Nights
Sapphire Nights – copyright 2020 Tourmaline & Thyme Quilts. This quilt is a third in my twisted Dresden Series.a It has been so much fun playing with the blocks to get different images. Sapphire Nights is a little different from the first two in the series...
Purple Craze
Purple Craze – Copyright 2020 Tourmaline & Thyme Quilts Jimi Hendrix meets Dresden Plate to create Purple Craze! Purple Craze is the latest in my Dresden Plate designs. The gradient of purple is like the smooth sound of Jimi’s music interrupted by the...
Palmetto Pines
Palmetto Pines Dresden plate designs had always fascinated me. But as usual, I couldn’t quite stick to the norm. Rather than a scrappy or bicolor design, I decided to stretch and use a color gradient. Of course, this meant I had to keep track of fabrics a bit...
Dresden Assembled!
Palmetto Pines My Dresden plate (nine 9 3/4-inch blades) was finally assembled in an 8 x 8 block quilt! The 10-inch blocks were sewn together in the pattern I had designed. I had several to chose from. Then, 6-inch borders were added to finish it off. It didn’t...
Hugs and Kisses
Hugs and Kisses – Copyright Tourmaline & Thyme Quilts, 2020 Babies bring smiles to our faces and joy to our hearts. We want to give them hugs and kisses. So why not give them Hugs and Kisses – a quilt made with my new quilt pattern! The 57-inch square...
Dresden Plate Centers
Typical characteristics of a Dresden plate or flower are the blades/petal and the centers. We have covered the blades, but what about the centers? Note, I wrote centers and not circles. In many instances the centers are circles or semi-circles, but that is not the...
