Category Archives: Quilting

Double Wedding Ring

Four years ago on July 4 my daughter was married! Naturally, I had to make a wedding quilt as a gift and no other would do but a Double Wedding Ring quilt. As soon as the quilt came off the … Continue reading

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Storm at Sea Quilt Top Completed

Recently, I attended a lecture and trunk show at Delphine’s quilt shop in Gaylord, Michigan. The speaker was Jodi Barrows who invented the Square-in-a-Square ruler and who has written many books about using the ruler. To use the ruler to … Continue reading

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“String Explosion”

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I was inspired by an article in the March 2013 “American Quilter” magazine by Gwen Marston to try another one of her “liberated” ideas. Click on these links to see two other projects I had … Continue reading

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The Making of a Raffle Quilt

Our local quilt group was asked to make a raffle quilt to benefit the township’s historical society’s projects. Several of our group had already learned about a nice block called the “Disappearing Four Patch.” I combined this block set on … Continue reading

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Autumn Drunkard’s Path

I just completed another curved piecing project, “Autumn Drunkard’s Path”: I was prompted to attempt this project for three reasons: 1) I bought a two-for-the-price-of-one Cyber Monday special from Cherrywood Fabrics consisting of two “grab bags” of approximately 10″ square … Continue reading

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Super Sizing the Winter Log Cabin

Shelly recently commented wondering how to make a king sized version of my “Winter Log Cabin” quilt. The original quilt seen below used 7-inch finished “cabins” where the “logs” were 1-inch wide each. It was eight blocks wide (56 inches) … Continue reading

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A First!

I am so excited to see my article “Machine Embroidered Binding” published in the winter 2013 issue of “Quilting Quarterly” magazine. My article is one of the “trio of edge finishes” mentioned on the cover. “Quilting Quarterly” is the official … Continue reading

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Winding Ways – Final Stages

Eighty-One Individual Blocks: Nine Rows: Three Thirds: All together now: On to the quilting design!

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Winding Ways Winding Down

Sixty-three down, eighteen to go! Down to the last two rows of blocks and I am finally confident enough to sew these curvy liitle blocks without pins. I rely heavily on my very pointy tweezers though! Also, I am close … Continue reading

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Over Half the Blocks

Forty-five down, thirty-six to go! I don’t know if I see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I can now believe there is an end to the tunnel! Those secondary pattern circles are really popping out all … Continue reading

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