One way to speed up the process of making a quilt is to create a whole cloth quilt. That is a single piece of fabric for the front, a layer of batting, and a single piece for the back. No cutting! No piecing! Of course, coordinating the fabrics is probably my favorite part of the quilting […]

A quick post about a baby quilt I made for a friend way back in JANUARY. I was late gifting it. (If I remember correctly, this was the quilt that required my sewing machine to go in for repairs.)  And now I’m even more late blogging about it, but here it is! It’s plain square patchwork, […]

I can’t believe it’s been nearly a year since my last quilting adventure! Yikes! I really do enjoy doing so many different types of projects, but that often means I don’t do any one of them as often as I might like. This was a refreshing bit of sewing, made for a family friend (Hi […]

For some reason, it seems I make quilts in pairs. On the heels of the baby quilt I showed you last week, I pieced together this simple patchwork squares quilt, measuring 40.5″ x 51.5″. To cut down on the time factor, I made this one in the binding-less “pillowcase” quilt style (generally following this tutorial). […]

She may not yet have a name or a place to sleep, but, by golly, baby girl has a quilt. I felt like I needed to start challenging myself a bit, so I decided to tackle the half-square triangle quilt, or HST. Supposedly easy and a gateway to fancier quilting. Truthfully, it wasn’t that much […]