These are all the fabrics I’m using for the peels in Springtime in Paris.When I was choosing the fabrics to use for the peels, I felt like the pinks were really dominant but when I look at them laid out … Continue reading
Springtime in Paris Prep
Category Archives: quilts
Springtime in Paris
Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Especially when we’re still stuck in this winter of frigidly cold temperatures. But no, I’m not going to Paris. However, I’ve started a new quilt that is already named. And its name is Springtime in Paris. … Continue reading
Quilt Play
There’s another thing I’ve been doing over the past week or so. And that’s playing with quilt designs in Electric Quilt. I finally decided to load Parallels on my iMac and then load EQ7 rather than struggling with the old … Continue reading
Lots of Little Half Blocks
Where have I been? Stitching. Stitching lots and lots and lots of these little half blocks, to be exact. With the chain piecing by hand method, these are going together much faster than I had anticipated. So much faster that … Continue reading
Shabby Yin Yang
This was the last project I unearthed on the weekend. The shabby chic yin yang blocks. These are larger blocks though – 6″ ones, to be exact. Which makes these huge blocks in comparison to the little Drunkard’s Path and … Continue reading
More Tiny Blocks
These little spool blocks haven’t been seen for ages either. But when I unearthed the tiny Drunkard’s Path blocks, I also unearthed the box that contained all the completed little spool blocks. I made them using half 90-degree 1″ hexagons … Continue reading
Tiny Drunkard’s Path
You’ve seen these before. But it has been a very long time. January of 2013, to be exact, was the last time I posted about these. And that was the last time any work got done on them. On the … Continue reading
Chateau Wall
The pieces I showed yesterday made what I’m calling Chateau Wall. I’m calling it that because I made it with French General fabrics. But it’s really a variation of the 9″ Castle Wall block with one of the bonus shapes … Continue reading
Block Beginning
I’m having such fun making these Castle Wall blocks that I decided to print the shapes for one of the variations of the 9″ Castle Wall block. And that’s what you see in this little group — all the shapes … Continue reading
Kitties in the Castle
A little more fussy cutting of kitties in an octagon and I was on my way to making another Castle Wall block. The hardest part of making this block was choosing the fabrics once I’d picked out the kitties to … Continue reading
