Another LAST BLOCK! What am I going to do this summer after all these finishes? Although I already have another Rainbow Scrap Challenge in progress so replacing this one won’t be hard… (Yes, I am extremely good at starting RSCs and abandoning them for a while.) It was actually harder than I thought to come up with teals. I use plenty of aqua, but not much on the dark side. There’s some bits that lean way more to the blue and green than the actual middle ground. But when you mix them all together, usually it doesn’t matter! There’s a border-sashing of gray around the outside, so I’ll be workin ..read more

Oh hey, we’re back to t-shirt quilts again! And not only that - we’re back to my very first “real” customer from 2014! This will be her third quilt by me (and #4 is up next!) Marathon Maniacs are the best at creating shirt piles. So because she was my first non-friend or family quilt, she got one done in Washington, one in Oklahoma, and now one in Alabama. Also, one was done on the rental longarm at Heartbeat Quilting, one on Patricia in freehand, and one on Patricia with the computer. So she basically sampled my entire business as I grew! She sent me a huge box filled with nearly 70 shirts ..read more

It’s here, the last “full clue” of the Carnival Mystery by Cotton Cuts! Clue ten will be the full quilt reveal and some minor piecing. So this is the last real section to piece before it all comes together! The big sections are are mirrors to what we made previously, so I’m sure that works into opposing sides of the quilt. I decided a while ago not to puzzle this thing together, so it’ll be a surprise to me as well! I’m pretty eagerly awaiting the final clue now that we’ve reached the end. Pattern: Cotton Cuts Carnival Mystery In case you’re counting, that’s the third set of “last blocks” sin ..read more

Welcome to TGIFF! But make sure you’re reading this on your Friday. I posted way early on Thursday to welcome our Australian friends on their Friday morning, so if you’re just an East Coaster, just wait till your Friday. It’s totally worth it. Oh, right, I can’t actually make you wait. So welcome! It’s Friday (maybe) and I’m finished! Which is also a total lie, but bear with me on this one. I finished this quilt in January, but couldn’t share photos until it was back in my possession, because it’s a sample quilt for Fat Quarter Shop. I’ve been an affiliate of FQS for a while, which means I ge ..read more

There’s five Mondays in April, so…instead of a bonus week, I’m just dragging out the random stuff into several posts. To be fair, I’m finishing a lot of the BOMs this month. So things are coming together in the bonus time! We start with Little Miss Sawtooth by Southern Charm Quilts! This is my guild’s BOM for the year, and these are the last two blocks. And then I sewed it together so that it was prepared for its Quilt Fest entry. But you’ll have to wait until it’s quilted to see it in all it’s glory! (What? I have to drag this out at least another month. Lots of finishes means I need to pick ..read more

I have been in a perpetual state of “almost done” on a whole bunch of different projects for half of March, but I finally got everything over the finish line and off to their new owners! Don’t worry, I’ve already got the next t-shirt quilt and two commissions on hand, as well as fabric from Island Batik for my next pattern. It never slows down around here! Anyway, up first! It’s a Doctor Who quilt! I posted the Doctor Who pillows in the Geekorium in February, and one of our awesome customers asked if I could do a quilt for her husband’s birthday. Well, yes, I have an endless supply of Doctor ..read more

Now it’s time to add a pollinator to the Enchanted Woods! Of course, after I made the schedule, I realized that it should be the bunny since it’s the day after Easter, but hey - you’re not here because I’m good at scheduling, are you? Expect a cute tablerunner with the Easter bunny and Veggie Patch’s carrot next year. Maybe even before Easter! Anyway, this month’s bee! It’s cute, it’s little, it’s easy. If you’re making the full quilt, you will need two of them, so you can mix and match the HSTs. Or not, like I did. Also, note that I used bee fabric in the bee body. Yes, I’m going to try to s ..read more

Oh heeeeey we’re here at the first month of the Quilty Fun - no, wait. The whims of the fabric gods were not on our side, and the kits from Fat Quarter Shop are delayed. BUT - instead of twiddling my thumbs, waiting for April to arrive, I went ahead and…cut my fabric! Okay, not all of it. But, I knew from the beginning that I planned to do some precutting. Since I have layer cakes, my color palette is a bit more limited, so I wanted to cut the things I knew had to be a certain color, or used a bigger chunk of the same fabrics. I mean, sure, you could do apples in any color…I guess…but I want ..read more

Oh, look at that - a quilt top in just a month! The Fat Quarter Shop had it perfectly paced, and I know I said it earlier, but I love how a medallion quilt comes together fast since you’re adding right onto the previous step. I’m notoriously slow at actually putting the blocks together to make a quilt top. This week, all we had to do was add the final background border and the strips at the top and the bottom. So easy, that I left it until the weekend and then was stuck taking a picture on Monday, the windiest day of the week. My husband was off to the side of this picture, straightening the ..read more

I’m in the home stretch of so many projects! Nothing like a good guild quilt show deadline to get you moving, huh? Maybe I can keep up the momentum after this one is finished and actually work on my Pam Bono flowers. It would be nice if that one didn’t take a decade. Anyway, Reflections! I made the last four blocks, the log cabins for the corners. …and then I sewed all the sashing pieces and blocks together! (Crap, I think the top right block is turned…) …and then I added the cream border and started working on the last border! (It’s not actually wavy, it’s just hard to pin a 78” square of ..read more