Dear Jane – Turkey Tracks – OC – and LOST NO MORE

| July 17, 2008

Dear Jane Quilt (Progress Report) I am really having fun making these Dear Jane blocks and I love the names that have been given to them.  Here is my A8  Florence Nightingale – one more done and 50,000 more to go.  🙂  Not really, it just seems like it! First – my red and white […]

QUILTY HAPPENINGS

| July 16, 2008

DEAR JANE So far I have made six blocks for my Dear Jane Quilt…..but when you consider that I am making TWO DEAR JANE QUILTS at once I have made twelve blocks.  The RED AND WHITE Dear Jane represents my PRACTICE blocks.  I make the red and white blocks first before I make the REAL blocks […]

Birth of a Sampler – Bargello Border in Process!

| June 27, 2008

Our nine months are almost up for our BIRTH OF A SAMPLER QUILT (class taught by Sherry Whitfield at “The Quilter’s Corner.”   Sherry designed this – and I am pretty impressed.   I must say that I was a bit apprehensive about making a 20 inch bargello border…..but I plunged right in.   It takes eleven 2 1/2 inch strips […]

Orange and Pineapple Crush Step 4

| May 10, 2008

The saga of Bonnie K. Hunter’s 2nd Mystery Quilt continues…….step 4 was 120 3 1/2″ triangle blocks combined with our step 1 2″ four patches to make 30 SPINNING STAR blocks. This is what my step 4 SPINNING STAR for the PINEAPPLE CRUSH MYSTERY  QUILT (my controlled scrappy quilt) looks like.  I went back to my […]

Orange and Pineapple Crush – Step 3

| April 29, 2008

TA DA…..My Step 3 of Bonnie K. Hunter’s (quiltville.com) second online ORANGE CRUSH mystery quilt is accomplished.  Hip Hip Hooray!  I am seriously cheering because getting all of these triangles sewn on the correct side was not easy for me (I am a bit directionally challenged and hopelessly spatially misguided!)  In fact, I made an entire extra […]