A Patchwork of Crafts

 just because they looked pretty hanging there with the low Autumn sun shining through. I took pictures. The quilt with the dark pink backin...

I started this sampler quilt in 2017  Tumbling Blocks   being the first of several new blocks I learned along the way. I finished it in 2022...

 As noted last week we are having a break from our joint projects. Tonight, I quilted. I am up to the corner blocks, this is the first of th...

 I got out my big booklet, full of hope that the same symbols would be used, and I would be able to figure out what the different shades are...

 An update, The plate itself is done and I have made a start on a filling design for the corners. My BFF and I were discussing the feel of q...

 I like the name my BFF has given to our shared sewing experience of tonight, a Quilt along. Took a little while to get in a comfortable pos...

 it has been so long since I completed the top for the sampler quilt and made my  attempt at  adding a quilting pattern. There have been som...

Top altogether I have made one attempt at marking out the quilting, changed my mind, washed it out and been distracted by other things. So t...

So for the last two blocks there is the Mooney Block.  I had issues with the stripes ending up the correct width.  I have mentioned before ...

On my previous post about the sampler quilt I had cut the pieces for three blocks. The last one I will be doing from the book, one from the ...

Here are all the bits cut, not just for the next block (grape basket) but for the replacement block and the extra one. Yup, these b...

As previously noted I decided to do the needle turn method of the applique elements of this block.  It did indeed produce a nice edge but I...

Moving on to the next block, now this one is part machine sewn and part hand applique.  First a nine patch, with a border  ...

Well I got it finished, I think I am finished with it...when I come to put the whole top together I might decide it needs another colour in...

This was a bit scary, the book said to have a seam allowance of  1/8 inch. What! I have only just got used to the quarter inch stitch tha...

Crocus Design. At least that is the chapter heading for this block.  Not the next in the book, the next one was Stained Glass Patchwork -...

Well here is my attempt to turn two large and eight small squares into eight big triangles and sixteen little triangles. I am going to sho...

Wild Geese, a start. Now like the previous Triangles the instructions for this block took me several reads before I understood enough to m...

Well this is an applique block.  I have done many an applique before but my way of doing it is a little different.  I did smile at the instr...

So last time I had the triangles into squares and was quite pleased with it. Then I took a better look at them and realised there was a...