Quilting June 2012 Archive

When you receive fabric gifts from your quilting friends, the yardage will probably be made from 100-percent cotton, but fabric gifts from family and friends who aren't into quilting might ... Read More

I've only seen the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) once, from an open field in Iowa. They were beautiful, but had I not known what I was looking at, the constant ... Read More

When fall arrives, the landscape progresses a into golds, browns, reds and black. You'll see those colors in Harvest Stars, a 72" x 96" quilt made from two different blocks. ... Read More

Starry Nights is a strippy set quilt pattern for a project that's made with Pinwheel and Snowball blocks, all arranged in vertical rows and separated by long sashing strips. The ... Read More

Those of you who know me know that I love vintage reproduction fabrics, especially prints that were popular during the Civil War era, and that's what I had in mind ... Read More

The Broken Wheel quilt block pattern finishes at 6-inches square and is the second block pattern used in the Backwards Medallion Sampler quilt. The pattern shows two color variations for ... Read More

It won't take long to make this easy pillowcase. French seams are used to contain the frays along the side and bottom of the case, and a folded-over cuff does ... Read More

Hand marbling is the art of floating paints on top of a thick solution, called size, manipulating those paints into patterns, then transferring the pattern to an object by placing ... Read More

Before I started piecing this block, I thought it might be time consuming. What a nice surprise to discover the block was not difficult at all and went together quickly. ... Read More

These two bug jar quilt blocks were originally designed for a swap in our Quilting Forum, and although the swap has ended, summer seems the perfect time to bring them ... Read More

Also known as Eight Points Allover, Kansas Star is a traditional patchwork quilt block that's made up of nine square-in-a-square units. Kansas Star is the first 'official' block published for ... Read More

Friendship quilts have been popular forever, but they don't all have signature panels like the centers of these 6" patchwork stars used in this little quilt. The blocks are easy ... Read More

The sampler quilt patterns I've written in the past (the Anniversary Sampler and the Scrap Happy Sampler quilt) both progressed with a continual release of quilt block patterns, but the ... Read More

The pattern for this Scrappy Framed Star quilt block was originally used to assemble the 2007 Anniversary Sampler quilt. The block finishes at 12" square, and looks nice when it's ... Read More

I get queries about the best way to print my quilt patterns, because if you simply pull up 'print' when you're on a page you'll end up with a document ... Read More

The Domino quilt block is a patchwork design that finishes at 9" square, with small units that are a nice size for baby and toddler quilts, but perfectly fine for ... Read More