Happy 1st of October! To get you excited for the upcoming holidays, we are sharing another installment of our Quilts We’ve Made feature. Today’s quilt is the Candy Corn Four Patch.I wish I still had these prints of tiny candy corn, funny-eyed pumpkins and small witches (by Aunt Grace, I believe). This was one of…
Here is another version of the Tumbling Jewels pattern we did for Camelot Fabrics. We wanted to make our own to play with a little different placement and to see how it would look in florals and more traditional prints. It gets a more vintage vibe with retro fabric from Riley Blake’s Promenade by…
This Mexican Star quilt pattern looked so fun to make that some friends and I talked the local quilt shop into teaching a class. As with most quilt patterns, it’s not nearly as tricky as it looks, especially once you figured out where the squares intersect. This pattern was one I had admired for a…
We are rather excited to show the finished “Tumbling Jewels” quilt. This is the quilt we designed and made for Camelot Fabrics’ Penelope line. These fabrics are so fun and fresh. They reminded us of the semi-precious gemstone colors found in topaz and quartz. The squares were designed on point to give movement to the…
One of our favorite holiday quilts we’ve made is “Snowmen on Parade” by Under the Garden Moon. We made this cute little seasonal number in one of my quilt guilds and it went together quite easily. The snowmen strip was the most involved, but was fun because the snow bodies are actually strips of different…
One of my first attempts at needle-turn applique, this quilt has been an enduring favorite. The main panel is made up of 10 patch blocks (1 1/2″ squares of scraps and one background fabric) alternating with solid pieces of fabric in between. Any pattern with solid blocks in between is a perfect place to show…