Oh, Fransson!

More Farmer's Wife Blocks

Remember when I started a crazy day-glo Farmer's Wife quilt? That quilt is on my WIP list, but it's an ongoing project, so I was just happy to add 12 blocks this week. 

Kicking it Old School

After seeing everyone's Farmer's Wife blocks popping up on Flickr and Instagram, I finally caved and started making some myself.

Faith's Traveling Quilt

This post is about something I made for The Traveling Quilts bee/round-robin. You can see my earlier posts about The Traveling Quilts here, here, here, and here. 

This is the addition that I made for Faith's Traveling Quilt. I didn't measure it before I packed it up, but I believe it's about 17" x 24". 

Barn Bats Block Tutorial

This is a tutorial for the block I used to make this Halloween mini quilt. For that quilt, I was definitely trying to make the piecing look like bats, but I think that absent the orange and black color scheme (and vampire teeth embroidery) it can read more like a graphic zigzag/herringbone variation.

Refrigerator Magnets: Numbers and Punctuation

Yesterday I showed you the letters from my new Refrigerator Magnets pattern. Today, I wanted to give you a quick peek at the numbers . . .

Refrigerator Magnets

Thank you all for the wonderful comments you've been leaving about my Periodic Table quilt!

While working on the many (many, many) blocks for that quilt, I read your questions about whether there would be a pattern and I thought a lot about my process for making the blocks, how it could be improved upon, and how it could be communicated in a pattern.

Akali Metals & Alkaline Earth Metals

Last Saturday, the PMQG had a sewing day at Fabric Depot, which gave me a chance to work some more on my Periodic Table quilt. 

Quilts from Modern Patchwork: Part 1

This is part of a series of posts about my new book, Modern Patchwork. You can read more here.

Escape Artist quilt.

It's hard to pick a favorite, but Escape Artist may be my favorite quilt from Modern Patchwork. I had been playing with the design idea for a while, thinking about things like screens, fences, and woven construction paper placemats.

Halogens, Non-Metals, and Metalloids

More elements have joined the quilt!

Traveling Quilts Progress

Remember when I posted this? At the time, the rules for this bee/round-robin were that we couldn't share photos of what we were working on. Since then, curiosity has proven to be too much for us all and the rules have been relaxed, which means that I can share some photos. Yay!

This is Amber's quilt so far. Before I received it, here's what happened: Amber made the blocks on the top and bottom left. Then she sent them to Alissa, who made the block in the middle of the left and sewed everything together with some Essex cotton/linen. What I received in the mail was basically the left half of what you see in the photo above.