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I saw TiaLynn Design's adorable elephant block and jumped at the chance to design a little blanket block for her Elephants on Parade blog hop. I do love a quick and dirty little project to get me creating, and using other people's patterns in the process is a treat for sure, especially when they are so cute. I wanted to make sure the block had a woven blanket type feel, and came up with this half square triangle laden (of course) design that looked a little to me like those "God's eye" things we used to make with sticks and...

It's here! My week on the Shades of Gray Block Tour! If you've been following along, you know how cute these little 6" blocks are! Maybe you've even been inspired to make a few and check out some new to you designers. If I'm one of those for you, welcome! I used three different shades of tone on tone-ish grey and two different values of lime for my pop, and I think it turned out pretty cute!  Perhaps not shockingly, my block is half square triangle heavy and uses my Accordion Sewn HSTs™ to create all the right combinations of...

Guess what I did this month? Two things - created this snappy little variegated thread block for Quilt Block Mania, AND once and for all learned how to spell "variegated." It's surprisingly tricky and is now etched in my brain. The theme this month of "maker" is pretty broad, but it was pretty easy for me to narrow down into one of my favorite little joys in life - thread. Who among us hasn't been overcome with joy over a brand new spool of thread? Just me? I'm easily overcome, maybe, but a fresh spool is a fresh slate of possibilities!...

Starting in January 2022, I took part in a casual challenge to complete a temperature quilt through Sue Pelland's Block a Day Temperature Quilt facebook page. I figured if I was ever going to do one, I needed to feel accountable to keep up, and just knowing a group was out there to check in with by posting a photo every few months, whether they cared if I did or not, did keep me going!  If you are unfamiliar with a temperature quilt, it is a visual representation in fabric of the high and low temperatures for a year of one's...

We all know Pat Sloan is fabulous, and now we have another fabulous new fabric line from her - Bird Song! And you've brilliantly found one of the first stops on the blog tour! When Pat asked me to play with her fabric and take part in the blog tour to show it off, I thought maybe she had forgotten that I am a scrappy designer who struggles to be contained with a finite number of fabrics, but when Pat asks, you say yes and ask questions later. It turns out, I think she just wanted me to stretch my...