After reading Liberated Medallion Quilts and Liberty Love (you know the book with the lovely Marcelle Medallion pattern), I couldn’t resist the challenge of creating my own medallion. I named it “Lucky” because of the nine four-leaf clover blocks throughout the quilt. Look, there’s one now, surrounded by hour glass blocks. After the hourglass border there are more clovers and…
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Lucky, a Selvage Medallion Quilt
Purple Clamshells
Have I mentioned I love purple? As you can see, I do love purple. These purple clamshells cut outs are for the ongoing Green Tea & Sweet Beans quilt my mother and I are making. (She loves purple too.) Next step, applique. How do you feel about purple?
Binding from Selvedge
I sure do love binding made from selvedges. All my favorites are in there. It’s about as scrappy as you can get. My tutorial for making binding from selvedges is here. Related Tutorials Explore my entire series of selvage quilt tutorials: How to cut and store fabric selvages How to make Selvage Fabric The Criss Cross Selvage Block…
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Quilting fun
Hi there. Here today to show off some fun free motion quilting (FMQ FFMQ) I’ve been working on this week. You haven’t seen this quilt yet. I actually finished this quilt many months ago right after QuiltCon, but lost steam when it came to quilting. The quilt is a medallion quilt made from selvedges. What I knew is the quilt…
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Double Wedding Ring Quilt {A Start}
For a while now, I’ve admired the Double Wedding Ring (DWR) Quilts. I’ve even started a red and white one only to find what they say is true. It’s a big commitment. Frankly, a plain red and white one was kind of boring. So I abandoned it. But I still love them. While the classic DWR is lovely, I really…
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