Just a bit left to quilt on that giant beast of a quilt. I was at a fabric store the other day and couldn't resist pulling a few new ...

If you are taking a class on technique, would you rather have the teacher run through multiple ways of doing the same thing or focus on the ...

Do you consider yourself a quilter or an artist or both? Or maybe somewhere in between? The above image was taken from the Fabricate ex...

A little more play. This round includes the options that come from using only one type of block. Seven Eight Nine Now, just to get a top or ...

So, let's play, shall we? This first round of layout options comes from an even amount of the two different types of blocks. Opposite co...

Option 5 won out. Sort of. After an evening of doodling/sketching and staring at the layouts, Hubby and decided on a wilder pattern that wa...

Am I a snob? Okay, don't answer that right away. There has been a lot of talk and entertaining posts lately about a lot of quilt arena i...

Let's talk books. I've reviewed a few books here and plan to review a lot more in the coming months. Before I go any further I wante...

Full disclosure: this is not my quilt. In fact, I've had no hand in making it at all. I did make one suggestion, but it was shot down. M...

Handquilting is something I've tried a sum total of three times. The first time was on my third quilt ever. And only because I was terr...

Fear holds a lot of people back. Not only in life, but also in quilting. Fear of a new technique, fear of messing up, fear of being less tha...

Have you been following along with the  Workshop in Progress  participants?  There are some really interesting projects out there. I'll ...

I thought I had it all figured out.  Then you guys had to go and weigh in.  Gee thanks a lot. Actually, I am really grateful for the opinion...

Some of you asked for diagonals, well, here they are. This is a departure from all the previous layouts. I find it both dynamic and calm at ...

Okay, I really need a design wall! It wasn't until I sorted through this last batch of photos that I realized how hard it is to get a de...

Continuing on with my Water quilt, I present v6.  When I did the initial layouts v4 was my favourite.  This is a bit of a change on that on...

Okay, I'm changing things up again. But in reading through all the comments I think I need to try a few more things before I settle down...

So, so? Did you see this coming? I combined v3 with those small bits, focusing on the vertical in them. Ignore the crookedness, but what abo...

Look at me changing things up.  This time I got rid of all the small pieces in this one.  And after so many of you liked them thrown into v2...

Hmm, some very good and frank comments yesterday.  Thank-you so much. There is already more for me to think about. This is v2.  v1 did not i...