Quilts

I’ve made 4 more quilt tops. The future owners of these visit here so I don’t want to ruin their surprise – they will know these belong to them. I think I have enough tops now for my holiday gift giving – now to quilt! If I quilt one top a week starting in September, […]

The Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild has begun hosting challenges to make quilt blocks to for charity quilts. The blocks due in July were to be 12” finished and use citrus colors. I pulled fabrics from my stash to make orange, lemon and lime blocks. Orange Block The orange block let me practice piecing letters and

The Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters have a quilt show and small quilt auction each year. I can’t be an officer in the guild because the meetings are doing the time I work, but I can donate small quilts for the auction. Here are my three latest. Striped Buttons (14” x 14”) Striped Buttons uses an

Flea Market Fancy quilt top (52” x 52”) Long ago I received a Denyse Schmidt scrap bag for a birthday gift. Inside were the most amazing pieces of fabric including bits of the original Flea Market Fancy fabrics. I used them in some of my most treasured projects. I longed to have more, so when

Scrap Quilt Top (53” x 57”) and Dexter Kitty After completing the Husband’s Challenge quilt, I was inspired to try another scrap quilt. I avoided blacks as I dug through my scrap baskets and pulled out an overstuffed gallon bag of favorites. Instead of obscuring the fabric by cutting the pieces into small strips, I

A local fabric store has a fat quarter sale on Jan 1st. Each fat quarter is $1 but you have to buy a minimum of 50. I mentioned the sale to my husband and commented that I wasn’t sure I would find 50 fat quarters I wanted. He suggested we go anyway and he could

Here are 5 of the newest quilt tops finished: 54” x 54” constructed of 2 Half Moon Modern charm packs and 1.5 white charm squares. 54” x 54” constructed of 2 Vintage Modern charm packs, 1 Wonderland charm pack I’ve had for years and a handful of extra white squares 57” x 47.5” constructed of

I have been sewing like a mad woman. I have completed 6 more quilt tops (8 total this month), 7 quilt backs and 8 binding strips. I’ll be busy quilting all of these for the next few month. Sewing quilt tops has been an ideal activity to relieve stress and it’s brought me several tops

Diamond in Diamond (54” x 54”) I quilted and bound my diamond quilts. Two more quilts for holiday gifts now done! Diamond in Diamond back I tried spray basting for the first time. Overall, I like the ease of use and time saved not pinning. However, I accidentally sprayed basting spray on my dining room