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The freemotion design Chain Link works well for domestic machine quilters and longarmers. This grid design resembles a bicycle chain and chain links. The pattern is based on a simple loop that is repeated twice per row. This freemotion pattern will look great on ...

Here’s what’s currently on my quilt design wall. I am almost done with all the blocks for the quilt, just another row to go and I’m ready to piece the blocks together with sashing and border. 

I started the quilt last summer together with a quilt along celebrating the Summer Memories Book by Susan Ache.  You can check out #summermemoriesqal to join along or to enjoy all the other versions. The book is an eye-candy filled with great projects and is sure to inspire you to pick up some red and blue fabrics to get started. I ...

Not all designs end as patterns. That’s not a bad thing; it’s part of the process of creativing. This design is from SpaceX’s Starship launch #5 when SpaceX first successfully caught the booster on chopsticks held by the Mechazilla tower. Not all launches are completed successfully, but that doesn’t mean the effort was for naught. Creativity blossoms, too, when the unexpected happens.

I’m trying here to capture that exact moment when the impossible idea of a huge rocket coming to rest without touching ...

The first design  is neat and tidy, and rather pretty. I have used a multi coloured fabric for the beads, but they could be several different fabrics, scraps … or carefully selected combination of colours and prints.

This is one of my favourite  project files … one of many to be honest … but it has been unopened for over a year.

There are over 300 block  designs in the file, but only 40 quilt designs, but now that I have it open  there just might be a few added in the near future … probably before you see these two.

The second design ...

The five strip blocks came as hand-me-downs. I made the four Variable Stars blocks to go with them.

Would a pattern be desirable? It makes a fast and friendly baby quilt.

And a name would be good, too. Suggestions welcome.

Here is a fun quilt I made using a  free charm pack quilt pattern in sweet lavender and green! These are not my usual colours, but they are pretty! Sometimes, I like to try out new colour pallete just to see how I feel working with these. They were surely harder to photographs as I am so used to saturated colours. But I love the finish and I have the perfect person in mind to gift this one to.

Free Charm Pack Quilt Pattern

The pattern is available for free on FQS. It uses 3 charm packs but it would ...

Hello Friends! I hope you have been well! It’s been a busy 2025 so far, but all’s good! We did get the snow right after New Year, it’s been rather cold! So I got our schedule worked out for In My Heart QAL. If you have sewed along before with me, you know my QALs are super low-key! Just grab your fabrics and sew along at your own pace, even though I do give you a schedule to follow if you choose to!

ABOUT THE PROJECT

#1. In My Heart is a quick and easy Log Cabin ...

Because every family that raises chickens needs a chicken quilt! It was such fun pulling fabrics for this one! These chickens were inspired by a chicken block from Sewinspired.  Each block was a joy filled 15 minutes of daily play … Continue reading →

Do you watch Disney animated movies?

This FMQ design is named after the magical whisps in the movie Brave that help the main character Merida find her way back to her family. The whisps, small bright blue creatures, show themselves like flames floating through the forest. This week’s design is named after those magical whisps.

The edge to edge design Whisps creates movement and texture on your quilt and is based on s-curves and curls. Each whisp is echoed before moving on to a new location for the next whisp.

It will look great on quilts with themes like ...

Well, once you get the itch, you just want to make more. Here is another 3-yard quilt: the Easiest 3 yard Quilt Pattern ever. And I agree!

The print binding is different for me, but I had just the right amount of fabric left over.

The minkee backing is also different for me, but it came as a hand-me-down. Having the quilt lay across my lap as I stitched down the binding makes me think I will use minkee on a future quilt I have planned to keep. The drape is appealing.

It is a great pattern for a quick-to-finish ...

Back with a slow update on this English Paper Piecing Grandmother’s flower garden quilt project. I am so happy to report an update since I didn’t touch the project at all in 2024! Can’t believe that the year simply passes without me touching this project at all, not even basting any of the hexagons. O well what’s passed is passed. 

This project is on my list of projects I listed in my 2025 challenge plans HERE>  I would love to continue the momentum with this quilt all the way in 2025. Hoping to make a significant ...

Don’t miss out on this one!

Next Tuesday I will launch the FREE Ribbon Candy workshop again. This workshop only opens up once a year, so don’t wait too long. Everything is online and prerecorded, so no waiting on a specific timezone!

The workshop is 3 days long. On Tuesday 14 January you will get access to the first module that will help you improve your basic Ribbon Candy border design. On Wednesday 15 January you will get access to module 2 that contains 3 videos with variations on Ribbon Candy. On Thursday 16 January the last module ...

This is a mixture of three or four different block collections so far, and I haven’t quite made up my mind if I have enough variety yet. I am thinking that there is at least one more which should be included.

I love the second design in the project file, though it took a few more than that to get the colours in the right places in the blocks from different projects.

The thing I am trying out is the background fabrics, two fabrics with a very subtle difference. I have tried it before, but I am hoping to ...

 I was asked to make a Christmas table runner.  This was pretty easy to do, using my 60 degree ruler and 1.5m of border print fabric.

If you’re making a quilt for a sports fan, athlete, or a special tshirt quilt, you might want to piece their jersey

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Get your marking pen out, I have a nice grid pattern for you! The shapes that make up this design are pretty easy, but the stitch path can become confusing. Please mark the stitch path too! It takes less time to mark than to undo your work! So, take your time, and go slow!

I have selected this Busy Bee design on purpose for this week. I know that for many of us Monday is ‘ back-to-work-day’ and ‘busy-busy-busy-today’ and it may feel like you never even had those vacation days off. Maybe try this fun design to counterbalance that? You ...

For many Christmas’s, my five siblings, and I, rotated through our names and each made a hand crafted gift for another. I almost always make a quilt. I had previously made three (sadly no photo of the first…) for this … Continue reading →

This was one of my 2024 carryover quilts. Now, thanks to a day of watching college football, is a finished quilt.

The blue floral print came in a hand me down bag–maybe leftovers from a quit back? But there was just enough to make patches with alternating pinwheels on the front.

And an interesting back.

A bit of spring spirit as a winter storm rolls in.

Ah, Shelly, you came up with a great one this time!

Task Three: Give yourself permission to start something new.

YAY! Task gladly accepted.

I enter 2025 with FOUR works in progress:

1. Arkansas Crossroads. All the 36 planned blocks are completed and I am experimenting with how to finish the edges. I hope to have it complete sometime this spring. It is more or less my current Leader-Ender quilt.
2. Ugandan Holiday. Gift for a friend. All three tops (tree skirt, table runner and throw quilt) complete. Quilting soon.
3. Baby Pinwheels. Quilted. Binding soon.
4. 3-Yard Quilt–Easiest Ever. Quilted. Binding soon ...