Are you ready for a free pattern? This is my Window to My Garden quilt featuring the beautiful fabric line Mint Julep by Dear Stella Designs. I love its simplicity as it allowed me to show off the happy floral prints of Mint Julep: As I designed it I kept thinking of looking out the window onto my backyard and seeing the picnic table all set up just waiting for the kids and the fun food. This pattern was also perfect for Dear Stella's fabric collection Market by … [Read more...] about Window to My Garden
Log Cabin quilts as decor – easy style!
[Edited on February 4, 2020.] My first ever quilt was a log cabin one. I have loved log cabin blocks forever and made more than a dozen quilts with them. Log Cabin quilts as home decor add an easy handmade style to any room. I have just received a copy of Annie's Publishing new book Log Cabin Variations and what was my surprise when I saw my quilt Natural Elegance featured on its cover! I am doing the happy dance! Log Cabin Variations presents 9 log cabin patterns where this traditional … [Read more...] about Log Cabin quilts as decor – easy style!
Piece and Quilt with Precuts
This book is a perfect segue to Pat Sloan's Teach Me to Make My First Quilt book I reviewed in my previous post. Christa Watson's Piece and Quilt with Precuts, published by Martingale, presents eleven quilt patterns made with precuts: they are beautiful, fast to make and teach you to use already cut or leftover fabrics. Christa is well known in the quilting community as a prolific machine quilter and, naturally, Piece and Quilt with Precuts is divided into three sections with quilt … [Read more...] about Piece and Quilt with Precuts
How to Make your First Quilt
I am often asked how I began quilting, and I tell the inquirer it all began with a book (you can read about it in this blog post). If you are interested in learning how to quilt or know someone who would love to learn it, today I would recommend Pat Sloan's Teach Me To Make My First Quilt published by Martingale and here is why. Pat Sloan takes the guesswork out of the basics about quilting beginning with important information about the sewing machine all the way to how to make (and … [Read more...] about How to Make your First Quilt
Lady of the Lake Quilt
I am loving my version of the Lady of the Lake quilt, a new pattern by Fat Quarter Shop from their Classic and Vintage Series. I made mine into a wall hanging measuring 34" x 50-1/2", perfect for an empty corner in my house. This has been a fun Sew Along! I used fabrics by Marcus Brothers from their New London line (which I have had for quite a while) for the blocks, and a gray by Cloud9 for the background. The pattern, even though is from their Classic and Vintage collection, works very … [Read more...] about Lady of the Lake Quilt
House Hot Pads
I forgot to post photos of these four hot pads I made a few weeks ago. I used leftover blocks I had from my quilt Nature Sweet on the front of these four houses. House blocks on hot pads just made sense to me. They have a scrappy look to them even though most of the fabrics are from the Foxtail Fern line by Dear Stella Fabrics. The quilting is very simple because this is supposed to be a fast project, right? I did machine embroider the words "Hot food warms the soul" on them. Each hot … [Read more...] about House Hot Pads