What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

What to do when your quilt rows don’t line up? When you’re working on a long-term project like Sunset Isle, where there’s an array of techniques and a variety of how many blocks per row is included, it’s not unusual to get to the end and find that your rows don’t quite all match up in length.

Perhaps it’s that seam allowances have changed over the year as you’ve grown more confident in your abilities and your accuracy has improved. Perhaps the printer settings were wrong when it came time to print templates ...

And so my friends, the time has come to finish our Sunset Isle quilts! And one final check in on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt.

Month 12

The final row is similar to the first row of Sunset Isle – the whole quilt has a touch of symmetry to it from top to bottom, and that’s the way I like it… uh huh uh huh.

Finishing instructions for your quilt are included in the pattern! Later on this month, I’ll share my full Sunset Isle quilt and a few tips for making the rows work and fit if they’re not ...

Another month and another row added to our Sunset Isle quilts and another check in on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt!

MONTH 11

I love the look of row 11, but I’m not gonna lie – I was very grateful to use my AccuQuilt 8″ Qube dies to help me make the blocks for this row. And while I’m being honest, I used to be worried about how Liberty would go in an AccuQuilt. I mean, I know that the dies can cut a huge range of fabrics, including denim, interfaced fabric for applique, felt and of course regular quilting cotton ...