I’m so excited to be here for the second annual New Quilt Block Hop! Last year I hosted with Cheryl, Yvonne & Stephanie but this year I’ve needed to focus on Mini Barn Quilts and prepping all the Country Living Exclusive blocks. This year we got to use this lovely color palette from Paintbrush Studio’s…
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Monday Mistakes – 94% Scaled Paper Piecing
In this semi-weekly series called Mistake Monday I talk about a cultural taboo: making mistakes. I make mistakes, constantly and aside from mentions of seam ripping I don’t see enough posts online about how people fix these mistakes with passable solutions or how they emotionally moved passed the mistake, let’s break that taboo. I needed…
Solstice Stars Sampler: the Finished Quilt
Solstice stars was completed just before Thanksgiving both quilting and binding. I machine bound the quilt because I wanted to give machine binding a try and since it was a quilt I was keeping for myself I didn’t feel like I needed to go over the top with perfection. My machine binding needs a lot…
Evening Star
The final star for my sampler! I picked this one from lemons quilt other sampler. I though it was just so lovely with how different it is compared to the other stars and that it could tie together all the fabrics so nicely. If this sampler was more traditional with more defined blocks I may…