For the broken star log cabin design to work, you have to make some blocks that are a single color all the way around – they aren’t half-light and half-dark. There are 32 (I think) in my broken star mockup/design – 16 using the neutrals and 16 using the blues. So I worked on making… Continue reading 16 neutral blocks
Author: Melissa
Chilhowie fabric pull
I was thinking about not participating in this year’s mystery, with all the other things I have going on. And when I saw the original colors, which are a bit brighter, I was even more convinced that I wasn’t going to do this year’s mystery. I just wasn’t into the brighter turquoise, orange, and purples.… Continue reading Chilhowie fabric pull
Slow cut strips
I made my brother a quilt a long, long time ago, almost 20 years ago now (wow!). I hand-quilted it (when I was hand-quilting most of my quilts), so it took a while to make, start-to-finish. I drafted out the ship blocks after watching an episode of Quilting from the Heartland with Sharlene Jorgenson. But… Continue reading Slow cut strips
Twists and Turns, part 1
Well, that was a lot of knitting! I finally got into the rhythm of it about a third of the way through. I had to keep checking my counts between sections to make sure I wasn’t missing an increase, but otherwise it went pretty smoothly. I waited until the knitting was complete to do the… Continue reading Twists and Turns, part 1
A different retreat
I attended a retreat with about 50 women from my church over the past weekend, and I really enjoyed it. It was really nice to get to know several of them a little better. We spent Friday night sitting around a bonfire, and after about an hour of just chatting, someone began singing hymns. We… Continue reading A different retreat