My First Stack and Whack!!

When I found this beautiful Asian print depicting Mount Fuji and cranes, I knew it would make an awesome Stack & Whack quilt!! Can YOU find the mountain and cranes in the stars on the quilt??

Sensai Barbie helped me to get the fabric laid out and showed me how to make the fabric match perfectly...





Isn't it amazing that every one of those hexagons came from the very same piece of fabric??? I'm going to use the original fabric as either a wide border or the quilt backing...

If you've never made a Stack & Whack before, I'd suggest that you add this technique to your repertoire!

A Good Use for Scraps!!

I really love making quilts out of the scraps in my stash!! So when I saw a log cabin quilt design called "Mixed Greens" in the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting, I decided to use up a bunch of my blue scraps...

What do you think of my "Mixed Blues"??



One of the really fun parts of making this one was combining strips to make the logs for the log cabin! As the logs are sometimes mixed, it just makes the quilt look even more scrappy!!

"Love"ly Quilts!

I haven't posted quilts for awhile, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been quilting!!

Our quilting class in February had two heart quilts to celebrate the season... a scrappy patchwork heart and a woven heart. I decided to try to get both quilt tops done in class just because I wanted to make both of them.





For the scrappy patchwork hearts, I just went to my stash and found some scraps... it's bright and sassy!!


For the woven hearts, I had chosen some cute princess castle fabric -- this one is for my oldest grand-niece, Avery... she's really in to princesses and pink!! I think she'll love it... as soon as I get it done!