Home from Vacation and sitting here painting some designs and piecing some Story quilt backgrounds. I am getting ready to head out on the road to teach. I have learned so many things lately and while in Sante Fe I saw so many wonderful images, colors, met so many Natives whose work is ...
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Cimarron, in teals, rust, and golds, has stronger value contrast. The value is used to create deliberate crossing from one border to the next, while the unnamed top has a mush of splotchy patterns and one-note values. The blending across borders is not deliberate, it’s accidental, and i...
First Border: Four triangles are sewn around the center square, forming the first layer of the diamond shape. Second Border: Another set of four triangles, larger than the first, completing the block. This straightforward construction allows for endless variations. By changing the size of the cen...
Quilting Digest | April 23, 2018 A Beautiful Quilt With or Without the Intricate Border! A wide range of “ugly” floral prints come together in a stunning scrap quilt. While the quilt is made Read More Quilted Gift Ideas Scraps are Perfect for a Charming Eyeglass Case Quilting Digest | ...
so we went and bought a 12 x 16. Turns out when we got home, that was already what I had…so it was back out for a 16 x 20. Great batik for the canvas covering, and between the binding and the extra border around the canvas, it looks like two mats for the frame. Happy with...
Once the blocks are sewn together, the quilt top will measure 48½” square. I’m going to add a narrow green border (an inch, I think) and then a wider border (say, five or six inches) of the little fishies print that you see in the circle of the Nebraska Star above. I’ll...
But she doesn’t stop there. Terri uses one of the templates to piece the border – simply charming! Minis are Marvelous! Posted onJanuary 23, 2019byPenny Haren Reply This series of mini quilt patterns are due to arrive next month and are a great way to use up scraps AND perfect your...
I like to reshape ideas into my own. This might mean that I take a block from the 1930s and make it over in Martha Negley and Philip Jacobs prints. I think knowing quilt history is important. Kind of like that old saying “knowing history prevents us from repeating the past.” I like...
I had thought I would just make it a simple series of sunflowers, and put an uncomplicated small border around it and call it done. I know those of you who know me are laughing hilariously right now as I’m not very good at simple and uncomplicated, but I keep trying. ...