This block will help you make a secondary design. Pretty soon you will be able to see the sparks! Assemble: (12) 6-1/2″ background squares (12) 2-1/2″ blue squares Place a 2-1/2″ blue square right sides together in one corner of a background square so that the pencil line connects the two sides as shown…
A square block sent on point can be colored in a lot of different ways to add visual interest to a quilt. In the case of the Midnight Star Table Topper pattern, it is used in the center of the quilt, with the star points reaching out from there. This is a Four-Part Series of…
How many different ways are there to make a square-in-a-square quilt block? So far, I have found 10 different methods for making this versatile block, also known as the diamond-in-a-square quilt block. Set it on point a second time and it becomes the economy block. Here are the first three. Stay tuned for more tutorials! …
Hourglass Quilt Block Tutorial If you are new to piecing, one of the most important things you need to do is to figure out how to cut along the straight of grain. Cutting along the straight of grain means that you are cutting parallel to the selvedge (sometimes spelled selvage.) It is the most stable…
I am delighted to present My Happy Place row in the Seams to Be Sew Row Along Blog Hop. It is my garden! It might be dormant this winter but those three-dimensional flowers will bob and smile until the new season begins. I hope you have been reading the tutorials this past month because this…
Hello, and thanks for visiting! I am delighted to see you all here. We have a lot of new members this month so I will tell you a little bit about me. I travel with the Quiltbus, a shuttle bus we converted into a mobile quilt shop. This month we are taking our mobile shop…
