I’m back with part 2 of the 12″ finished (12 1/2″ unfinished) sailboat quilt block tutorial. This fun nautical themed block is perfect for the cottage commissioned quilt I’ve been planning and working on. Next week I have a fun post planned to explore different layouts for this quilt block in a couple nautical themed…
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Using Sandpaper to Mark Half Square Triangles
In a recent tutorial you might have seen that I had a red sandpaper in the photos when I was marking my half square triangles (HST) or other bias line marking. In May I went to the Original Sewing Expo and one of the classes I took listed sandpaper as a material we needed to bring.…
Sailboat Quilt Block Tutorial (Part 1: The Sail)
The other week I posted about the sailboat wall hanging I had been designing for my family’s cottage. After visiting a few design idea I ended up creating a fun 12″ finished (12 1/2″ unfinished) quilt blocks. Here’s part one on how to make this quilt block for yourself! I’ll be posting in the coming week with part…
Cottage Wall Hanging in Planning
At the end of May my mother texted me about commissioning a wall hanging for the cottage my mother and aunt inherited when my grandmother passed away last fall. It’s the cottage I recently posted about on the coast of Connecticut. It’s right on the water on the coast of Connecticut but it’s not a…
Triangle Baby Quilt
I remember the night I started this quilt very clearly. I was home by myself, in my old apartment on a Saturday night. It was getting down to the wire before moving and I had a list of things a mile long to do. Mostly cleaning, purging and packing. Do you know what I did instead?…
V and Co: A Class & Ombré Love Affair
I should’ve taken more pictures but I was too busy sewing this past Saturday at the “How to Work with Ombré Gradients” class with Vanessa Christenson of V and Co. hosted by Daley by The Yard, a LQS in the Greater Boston area. Vanessa is too darn cute, like, for real: adorable. The class was…
Goose Lane Quilt Finished
I finished this quilt a while back. By a while back I mean that I gave this quilt it’s first wash 12 weeks ago and I have no good reason for not sharing it till now but here is my original design: Goose Lane. Goose Lane is the exit on the highway I take to get…
Double Dipper – A Mini Quilt
I finished her, and just in the nick of time to enter my latest lovely, Double Dipper into the 2015 Spring Blogger’s Quilt festival hosted by Amy over at Amy’s Creative Side. Some of you have seen sneak peeks on Facebook and Instagram recently but now I can show her in all her glory! This mini…
Home Made Ironing Press Board Revisited
I can’t believe it was just over a year ago that I posted about turning my ironing board into a mega pressboard here on the blog. I still love that pressboard, I’ve re-covered it once and would love to make some improvements on it but she’s still totally functional so I haven’t spent any time…
April Block of the Month: Cross-Cut Block
It’s my month to create a block for the Boston Modern Quilt Guild’s block of the month. I’d signed up to try and get myself more involved with the group and actually made it to a meeting this month: yay me! It sounds small but it’s a big change from sewing quietly, by myself from…