Here are my first three blocks.  My inspiration went darker not lighter when choosing the green… .. aka used the closest greens I had in my stash.  Hope they past the test....

I didn’t realize it until I tried it this year, but if I put blocks on the floor, one of my cats will appear and mess them up. So I put them up on the temporary design wall to get a photo of all of them. If you look closely, you may notice that I chose my third fabrics–in addition to the Greenery-inspired green and the tan and pink backgrounds that are inspired by the palette of colors that Pantone predicts we’ll be seeing in...

Just posting my 2 blocks this month.  Will donate these this month – somebody here will love this green more than I...

Four February Puzzle Blocks. Thanks for the instructions on making four flying geese at...

Only three blocks for my entry this month. Look closely and perhaps you can guess why. In my life as a semi-professional seam ripper, I have developed lots of time-saving techniques. Watch for my book: The Art of the Rip-Out....

Here are my February Dutchman’s Puzzle Blocks. Hopefully the greens “inspired by” Pantone’s Greenery are close enough to pass muster. But if not, let me know and I can redo them.  These were fun!...

    I actually made three. One I sewed the fabric for one color wrong side up – oops! One I have the pinwheel going the wrong way. oops again! I hope to find some time to make more this month, but at least there’s this one! It’s for donation, since I just won a set of heart...

Here are nine blocks for February.  I went to the Pantone website to be sure I had the right tone for “greenery.” Maybe it’s the word, maybe it’s the color, that led me to think about flowers — hence the floral fabric for the quilter’s choice portion of the...

In January 2017, 29 quilters made 153 heart blocks, using made-by-you fabric, that were won by Laurie, Nancy and Susan. Karen N. made this one. Complete guidelines and the link to the block directions are in this post: What Do you Love? January’s Heart Block    The tag for ALL blog posts about this month’s block: heart This month, I also released a quilt pattern which you might use for any or a sampler of all of the blocks we...

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My favorite quilt style is Scrappy so I was delighted to see this month’s Lotto block continued the made fabric theme.  By January 3rd I had pulled out a mound of red scraps. January 9th came and I was still looking at the same mound. Why couldn’t I get started on what should be an easyblock? It took me three days to make the first heart and another week to make the second one. In the meantime, to avoid that pile of red, I cleaned...