How is your cutting mat, rotary cutting blades? Are you still using the same rotarty cutter you bought 15 yrs ago? time to update and upgrade quilters! check them out! For some weeks of this challenge I’m spending time looking through old notebooks and sketches. After all these years I see a shape or the […]
Are you enjoying my new site ‘I Love to Make Quilts’? I sure am!! It’s SEW exciting to see your Solstice blocks pop up on Wednesday! My goal is a twice a week post for this website, the second will be either another fun quilt along I am hosting, maybe a cool deal I spotted, […]
Some great fabric sets in the clearance right now.. check them out! Surprise….. Applique today! I know a LOT of you are new and this will be a new technique for you.. way to go jumping in and learning new things! I appliqued on my very first quilt. It is NOT hard or scary.. it’s […]
Some great fabric sets in the clearance right now.. check them out! REMINDER – If you signed up for email notices, those are generated at 11am EST (my time). So if you want a pattern sooner, come to the website. This is my Cobble Stone block for my Solstice quilt. I am really smitten with […]
Some great fabric sets in the clearance right now.. check them out! FIRST – If you signed up for email notices, those are generated at 11am EST (my time). So if you want a pattern sooner, come to the website. Now onto Block #4 which is perfect for busting some 2.5″ strips. The half logcabin […]
Some great fabric sets in the clearance right now.. check them out! Block #3 is perfect for busting some 2.5″ strips. The half logcabin uses leftover jelly roll parts or scrap strips. What I love about this block is how different it will look depending on color placement. Alternate Light and Dark. Or you could […]
I love a Bright and Shiney New Year! HELLO 2017 we are going to be very good friends! Here at I Love to Make Quilts I want to kick off Jan 1 with a BANG .. a Quilty Prize worthy type bang… I will be doing more about the fun things planned for 2017, but […]
From Dec 21, 2016 the start of the Winter Solstice until June 20, 2017 then of the Winter Solstice, I hosted a 25 block sampler. (click here to see a image you can enlarge) I’ve been fascinated for years about starting a project on the Winter Solstice and ending it on the Summer Solstice. That […]
Star blocks are so classic, we quilters love them…. big stars, little stars, simple or complicated. Whenever you take a shape and split it colorwise it creates these incredible designs. Try with 2 fabrics, or 4 fabrics… or … maybe more! …….keep reading! Article continues below this Ad ********************************************* Download Pat Sloan Block 2 directions […]
I’ve been fascinated for years about starting a project on the Winter Solstice and ending it on the Summer Solstice. That is 182 days between them this year. A 182 days to focus on doing a project… something fun… creative.. free flowing. And doing it together is way more fun than by myself!. I will […]