Tag: Easy Breezy quilt

I finally got around to asking my husband to hold my Easy Breezy quilt up to take a photo on a sunny day. The trees behind our house make interesting shadows on the quilt and the backing.

All of the blocks for this quilt were pieced before my vision issues began back in November. In fact, I had already pieced them into rows, and had started piecing one set of rows together. I took this quilt with me to the retreat as a “backup” project, so that just in case, if I… Continue reading Easy Breezy, finally

These are just the little “9-patch” units that go into making my alternate blocks for the Easy Breezy quilt. I’ve made a few, but I have a lot more to make. Some will be actual 9-patches and some will have one long strip of fabric in the middle making the little plus sign. It just… Continue reading Different alternate blocks

Even though I’m not through piecing all of the blocks for my leader-ender challenge quilt from last year, I’ve been struggling with how to arrange the blocks (sashing? if so, how big? no sashing? alternate blocks? if so, what kind of alternates?). The blocks themselves are 6-inch finished, which means that the layout I choose… Continue reading Quilt layout struggles

I started Bonnie Hunter’s Easy Breezy quilt as a leaders/enders project last year when she announced it, but my progress on it has been slow. I think part of that is because I used up a lot of 2-inch scraps when I made Larry’s log cabin quilt, so I don’t have as many long pieces… Continue reading Leader/ender project