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I have finished the chevron braided strips for my baby quilt.  Five rows of chevrons with four setting strips. It doesn’t have outside borders yet, and measures 30″ x 44″.  It is raining, dark and cold here in the San Francisco Bay area and this quilt is bright, cheerful and makes me hopeful that Spring is coming […]

Over at SewMamaSew.com they are having a theme month with lots of tutorials and photos of fun, modern quilts.  They were organizing a fat quarter swap so I signed up for two.  I will be trading a fat quarter of fabric with two groups of women.  (A fat quarter is a piece of fabric 18″

Here is block number four in the Moose on the Porch Quilt-along.  There was a strip of fabric in this collection that I thought I would never use – big, wide, multi-colored stripes with random scallops.  This block is perfect for it! The little three inch steps allowed me to fussy cut the stripes so

Hate to throw away scraps?  I do.  If a fabric scrap is at least 2″ by 4″, I cut it into a 2 x 4 inch rectangle and put it in my “braid” box, organized by color.  I find French braid quilts to be a fun exercise in color.  I recently found this fabric in

This is block three in the Moose on the Porch sew-along.  The pattern called for four different fabrics, one for each quarter, with alternating centers, but the fabric line I am using, “Objects of Desire,” doesn’t lend itself to that many combinations so I just used two.  Very cheery, but I need to stop using