Colour wash quilts

Over the past several years, I've done a few projects inspired by Bonnie Hunter's Leader and Ender challenges. Every summer, Bonnie introduces a new block to be made while working on other projects. If you have the pieces all cut and waiting next to the machine, it's amazing how much you can get done without really trying. For an explanation of how leaders and enders work, check out Bonnie's page HERE. I've done a couple of leader/ender projects recently with the goal of making one block for…

I love new ideas but sometimes there are TOO many of them!

This is a quilt top only (not a finished quilt). It is approximately 32" square and has 256 little squares in it. The gray is the design wall flannel, not a border. Click on the photo to enlarge.

A blog about quilting and a newbie quilter's journey.

In January, our guild had an "Out with the old" challenge, where we were to use up some of the oldest fabric in our stash. Back when I first started quilting (I think around 2006), I bought four packages of 100 floral 4" charm squares on eBay. The person selling them was putting them up

This is the absolute latest and greatest. (Although I've said that several times during this process, I am pretty sure this really is IT. And because it is so hard to envision the whole process... This was the first pass. I look at it now and I can't get over how choppy it was. Once again, I have to tell you all how incredibly difficult this is. It's not just the color, it's the value. It's the placement next to its neighbors. It's how each block fits together to get as seamless a transition…

More storms and tornado warnings a couple miles south last night so I had the machine unplugged again for awhile. 8/10 of an inch of rain...