The beginning of my row by row quilt sampler, including block lotto blocks I won last year and some disappearing 4 patch blocks I had left over from another project.  I’m loving the how colorful it is and the colors are even brighter than they appear in the picture!!!  This was such a Great idea,...

This morning, Christa emailed me with a photo of her calendar. The quilt in the photo is Road Trip by Pat Wys (from her book Knockout Neutrals). If you like on-point settings, this will give you an idea of how our blocks might look, on-point, with narrow (1 1/2-inch) sashing and cornerstones. In these blocks, both the X and the Plus are scrappy, with a consistent dark square used for the center of the plus. The calendar was created by That...

I was reading in past posts about color bleeding  issues so I thought I would share  some info for anyone wanting to wash colors that you may think will bleed. Shout color catcher sheets made by Johnson. Work great. I have washed colors that should not be washed with other colors as a test run, and the colors have never transferred, when I use one of these in the laundry. They are also great to have for teens and young adults doing laundry, who...

Uh oh … I am already falling behind with my row per week goal. I’d like to blame it on the “a word” (appliqué) … but it’s probably more a reflection of the stress in my life right now. I cannot show you a row yet, but here’s my plan. I decided to work on the flower appliqué row next.  Because I know the blocks will be side-by-side, I thought it would be fun to add a vine and a few leaves to connect the...

Here is my sampler row quilt so far – 4 rows completed

Look in the center of the blocks in this quilt, by Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts, and you’ll see small half-square triangles.

I got a catalog from Connecting Threads today. This pattern would be a great way to set last month’s tulip blocks. Nordic Island Quilt Kit (Image from Connecting Threads...

This is my week 3/Row 3 check-in for my Sampler Row Quilt. I decided to make the row that’s under the Tulips in my sketch, which also happens to be this month’s Twinkle block.

Sophie,  I really hope you are not too discouraged to continue.  I just found the group and I am really liking it.  I can see that it would be a lot of work for  you.  Your recent instructions were not the problem, in my case, with my error of colour.  I read the directions and picked my fabric out at two separate times and was not paying attention to the colour rules enough to notice that colours were to be the same.  Hope I have posted this...

Remember my plan?   12 rows +     12 weeks   ________   1 Sampler Quilt   This is my week 2/Row 2 check-in. Did you notice last week in my coloring page sketch of the quilt that I didn’t resolve the gaps created by the fact that I decided on a 63 inch width and that those long 18-inch wide blocks didn’t fit in a nice multiple?  For my second row, I chose to make the Many Triangles strips and share how I dealt with it …...

I was looking at a calendar recently and noticed that there are (almost) 12 weeks until Christmas.  I wondered if I could make a sampler quilt, organized in 12 rows (of our 12 monthly blocks) in those twelve weeks.  It seemed doable to me.  I started thinking:   12 rows +     12 weeks   ________   1 Sampler Quilt   I decided that I would post weekly and share some of my thought process as I worked through my sampler quilt. If you have been...

I can’t tell if you all don’t like the block, don’t like the color palette, think it’s too difficult … or something else.  So, while I am blissfully ignorant, suspending disbelief and thinking some of you will make blocks this month … I put together a quilt layout in EQ that shows the secondary pattern you can create with black sashing and non-black cornerstones.   I used black and white prints for the...