Quilts

This lovely pattern is great for beginners and ideal for using your collection of fat quarters! The alternating placement of two simple blocks creates a deceivingly complex pattern. This lovely pattern is great for beginners and ideal for using your … Continued

Sometimes what appears complex is the result of a simple concept. As well, what is conceived as simple can be a challenge. Before designer Monika Kinner-Whalen’s quilt project is dismissed as too complex or too simple, a closer look might … Continued

I LOVE batik fabrics and have been collecting them for awhile now, but have just started recently to actually cut them up and quilt with them. When I found these coffee cup and coffee bean batik fabrics at my local … Continued

I have loved linen since I was 12 years old. It was the year that I spent three summer months in Italy with relatives. It wasn’t my first time nor was it my last, but that particular visit in Aosta … Continued

What are these different schools of the craft? I am, relatively speaking, new to quilting, and have learned that there is a heck of a lot more going on in quilting than when I made my first machine pieced and … Continued

It’s hard to imagine that summer could be warmed or brightened anymore, but designer Colleen Blackwell McMahon has found a way. Her patio quilts can be thrown nonchalantly over a wicker chair or draped over a picnic table or bundled … Continued

Some of the most glorious images in the world are created in stained glass, so why not create a “window” on your own world? Here is an opportunity to create your own “rose window” albeit not quite like the famous … Continued