Sampler Quilt BOM – Part 7 – Ohio Star
I am really enjoying stitching the classic blocks in my sampler BOM. It has been several years since I made a quilt using what might be termed ‘old favourites’; blocks […]
Sampler Quilt BOM – part 6 – Old Maid’s Puzzle
A classic pattern for block number 5 in my sampler BOM: Old Maid’s Puzzle. Old Maid’s Puzzle is a well known quilt block that dates back to at least the […]
Sampler quilt BOM – part 5 – Dutchman’s Puzzle Variation
I chose the Dutchman’s Puzzle Variation block as my fourth block to make, as I so wanted to see the effect of the two orange batiks with the grey background […]
Sampler Quilt BOM 2022 – part 4 – Double Friendship Star
I decided it was time for some purple, so chose to make the Double Friendship Star as the third block in my sampler BOM. As with the two preceding blocks, […]
Sampler Quilt BOM 2022 – Part 3 – Saw Tooth Patch
So time for the second block of my Sampler Quilt BOM. Having started the quilt with the green Churn Dash Block, I decided to make the red Saw Tooth Patch […]
Sampler Quilt BOM 2022 – part 2 – Churn Dash
Personally, I have two all-time-favourite ‘classic’ quilt blocks – the Shoofly block and the Churn Dash block. So I decided to start the BOM by making the Churn Dash block, […]
Sampler Quilt Block of the month 2022: part 1
In my last post I wrote that I have a few plans for 2022. One of them is to do a block-of-the-month project. The idea, of course, is to sew […]
A New Year’s Quilt and new year plans
Just before Christmas, Mary Etherington of Country Threads blogged about her plan for observing the tradition of starting a new quilt project on New Year’s Day. She suggested that her […]
Happy New Year 2022!
Christmas ornaments ‘stitching snack’
I have three great colleagues who together with me form the Management Team of the museum where I am director in my ‘day job’. With gifts for special occasions, I […]
ice bear quilts 