Here is a fun and traditional block that makes awesome secondary patterns. In my video I show you how to make the half square triangles using the eight at a time method. If you know how to use a different method and want to add more fabrics/colors to your block then go for it. This is a great ...
Hi Everyone! Welcome to my first post as a 2023 Island Batik Ambassador. This is my third year and I am just as excited and honored to be doing this as I was on my first year. Four times a year the ambassadors participate in a blog hop. We are asked to make a particular type of quilt and are ...
Every month I make a project for the Island Batik ambassador program. For this month we were given one of their new fabric lines and asked to create a puff quilt. Having never made one, I checked out lots of online tutorials and came up with a process that combines a bit of all of them. I ...
We have lived in our house for about 15 years and have wanted to renovate our basement for a long time. Plans were finally put into place because I needed more space for my quilting business. We got our contractor set up, talked about the plans and the work was done. Join me as I take you on a ...
I am so excited to present my two new quilt patterns to you. Both of these quilts appeared in the Spring/Summer 2022 Island Batik catalog and are now for sale in my Etsy shop. I’d love to tell you a little bit more about each of them. Heart Strings Heart Strings is a sweet quilt that is ...
Four times a year Island Batik ambassadors participate in a blog hop to show off their gorgeous new fabric lines. We are assigned one of the lines and asked to make a quilt of a certain style with the fabric. This time our challenge was to make a lone star quilt. Gulp! I’ve only ever made ...
The latest block in my fast and easy quilt block series is an interesting one. It is also a bit trickier than the other ones that I have presented, so you will want to take a bit more time making it. Some really interesting secondary patterns appear when this block is repeated in a quilt. Learn ...
Am I the only one who can’t resist those gorgeous precuts in my local quilt shop? Each one has various bits of fabric gorgeousness in them. I end up buying them and then they end up on my shelf. Because I am am an Island Batik ambassador I also get a number of them in my ambassador ...
Can you believe it is already time to assemble clue #4 of the Piazza puzzle mystery quilt from Cotton Cuts?! There are 2 sections to this month’s clue and a small glitch in the pattern, but no worries, my video shows you what to do. There are a lot of half square triangles this month, ...
I love Christmas stockings so when I learned that this month’s Island Batik ambassador challenge was to make one, I was pretty excited. When I was trying to come up with an idea for my stocking I thought of making large ones for family members. However everyone has a stocking that is ...
I am over the moon excited to show you my latest quilt – Strength Training. I love the way this quilt turned out. When the people at the magazine told me it was going to be on the cover I couldn’t believe it. My quilt on the cover of a quilt magazine! Wow! This is my first pattern ...
