Oh, checkerboard patchwork, how I do love thee! It’s charming every time. Now a whole checkerboard quilt in this small-size patchwork would be quite an endeavor, but this little taste is pure delight. I’m on my way to a finished quilt top this month!
Read MoreThere are often lots of ways to sew most patchwork blocks, with advantages and disadvantages to different approaches. It’s easy to assume that the first method you learn is the easiest or best one. Until you try another method, you really don’t know! Patchwork can surprise you.
Read MoreIntroducing Dear Dottie, my latest finish. She's a scrappy color scheme, minus yellow and brown, with generous helpings of black and purple. Sometimes I characterize my scrap quilts with a vague…
Read MoreThis dottie quilt has been so much fun! I love cutting up scraps, discovering how many template shapes can emerge from a pile of odd-shaped pieces. Today I started joining my dots together…
Read MoreThis week I chose to drop everything and sew something easy and relaxing. Something fresh, but not too hard. Something deliciously scrappy!
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