Childhood Cancer Awareness

Childhood Cancer Awareness

by | 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

Design Wall Stability

by | 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

Sante Fe Summer

by | 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

Making Stars

by | 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...
Making Stars

Cutting Diamonds

by | 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

Fall Favorites

by | 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 | 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...
Never FOrget – Progress

Never FOrget – Progress

by | Sep 11, 2020 | Quilting Tips

Never Forget has been a labor of love. The design was inspired a year ago. Next, I need to figure out how to assemble it in the easiest way possible. That took some noodling and some research. The methods finally gelled and I started putting it together a month...
Never Forget Published

Never Forget Published

by | Sep 10, 2020 | Quilting Tips

Tomorrow is the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Most of remember exactly where we were when we learned of the event. Many of us were glued to our television sets or radios as it unfolded. I had just landed in St. Louis where I was working for the day…. I...

Dropbox Disaster

by | Sep 2, 2020 | Quilting Tips

When I quilt, I frequently take pictures or video of the steps, which can be shared in my classes, quilt alongs or patterns. The easiest way for me to do this is to take them on my phone, upload them to Dropbox and access then from my computer. This has worked well...