Tending Grandma P’s Flower Garden, Part 2
Hey there! Glad to have you back for more Tending Grandma P’s Flower Garden – yay for English Paper Piecing and handwork!! If you missed the first post, check it out here. As I mentioned before, I have tried where possible to assembly line this project. I don't want...
11 Crazy Things Quilters Say But Shouldn’t
Hello again! Apologies for being absent for so long – between being ill and running a Cub Scout day camp, I was left without time for much else. But – I’m healthy and ready to roll with more quilting! I was perusing a Facebook group yesterday and happened upon a...
Scrap Quilts: New Adventures in a Useful Old Approach
Do You? Do you save scraps? I’m guessing the answer is yes for most quilters. The question should probably be phrased like this: Do you use your scraps? On a regular basis? Now that we are approaching this from a slightly different perspective, let’s continue. 😊 Scrap...
6 Methods for Making Half Square Triangles for Your Quilt
The Dreaded Acronym – It Can Mean So Many Things It can mean so very many things, but in the quilting world it means half square triangles. There are thousands of uses for HSTs in quilts – and it seems like that many different ways to put them together. Almost....
UFOs Got You Down? There’s No Shame – You’re Not Alone
What exactly is a UFO? Let’s Talk UFOs…. New to quilting and not sure what that is? Well…. Welcome to the world of Unfinished Objects! Or, as I like to the think of them, my forgotten to do list. You see, I have always subscribed to the notion of that I need to have...
5 Reasons I Needed a Quilt It List and So Do You!
Gathering Place for Project Goals Sew. Why did I create the Quilt It List? The list started out as me just saying ‘hey, I want to make….’ Insert any one of the following: A monochromatic quilt A cathedral window Irish chain Purple and green Ocean themed color scheme...
Tending Grandma P’s Flower Garden
Hmm. So I find myself obsessed (nothing truly unusual there…) with my new project. I am working on an English paper piecing (EPP) quilt, using a Northcott line that I absolutely fell in love with when it arrived at the store. The name of the line is Hopelessly...
Dream Big and Don’t Let Fear Stop You – My Story
A bit of background about me and how I got started quilting. I’ve been a fan of the needle arts for, well, my entire life. My Great Grandma P taught my sister and I to crochet, and while I did make a few things as a kid, I was never really good at it. By not really...
My Unexpected New Favorite Old Thing
A short post today, but I envision this topic coming up on a regular basis and I have decided to call it my new favorite old thing, or NFOT for short. Today it happens to be Stitch and Ditch paper. Now, it may amount to operator error or maybe my machine needs to be...
Top 10 Useful Tools for the New Quilter
Top 10 Useful Tools for the New Quilter So, I am highly confident that there a ton of places to find lists of "must haves" new quilters need. That said, I’m tossing in my vote. I live in a world where sinking a ton of money into anything all at once has just never...
