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Ruby Star Wrap-Along

Today is my stop on the Blog Tour/Wrap-Along for Melody Miller and Alison Tannery's new book, Ruby Star Wrapping. Subtitled "Creating Gifts to Reuse, Regive & Relove" Ruby Star Wrapping is all about creating beautiful gift wrap from found materials.

Modern Patchwork: Rapid City Quilt

This is part of a year-long series of posts about the quilts from Modern Patchwork. I'm highlighting a different quilt each month, and will be remaking each of the book quilts in some way. This month, I'm making a new version of the Rapid City quilt, which is on Pages 42 - 51 in Modern Patchwork.

The Rapid City quilt is so named because it was inspired by Vandamm's (James Mason's) awesome Mt. Rushmore-adjacent hideout in North by Northwest. 

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.

Modern Patchwork: Finished Neighborhood Pillow

This is part of a year-long series of posts about the quilts from Modern Patchwork. I'm highlighting a different quilt each month, and will be remaking each of the book quilts in some way. 

This month, the featured quilt from Modern Patchwork is Neighborhood, which appears on Pages 34 - 41. I made a pillow version using a single block, and you can find my post about making the block here.

Modern Patchwork: Neighborhood Pillow

This is part of a year-long series of posts about the quilts from Modern Patchwork. I'm highlighting a different quilt each month, and will be remaking each of the book quilts in some way. 

This month, the featured quilt from Modern Patchwork is Neighborhood, which appears on Pages 34 - 41. I'm getting a late start, so it's fitting that the Neighborhood quilt pattern is perfect for adapting to a small project like the pillow I'm making.

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". 

How to Make Quilted Patchwork Panels for a Structured Bag

I've gotten a lot of questions about how I made the panels for my quilted Weekender Bag and, since I'm in the process of making a second one, I was able to take some photos and write up a little tutorial.

Hexie Pillow

I finished my hexagon project!

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.

Barn Bats Halloween Mini

I almost never decorate for holidays, which is kind of weird, since I like holidays and I love making things!

In an attempt to be more festive, I decided to make this mini quilt for Halloween. It's not especially practical, but I think it will look good on a table with a bowl of candy sitting on it.