Pastimes Quilt Design

Normally, since I design patterns, I don't have time to make quilts from other designer's patterns.  But my long arm quilter quilted a  "Tribute to Judie" by Carol Hopkins Designs for one of ou...

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I had some darling vintage style fabric showing kids marching in a patriotic parade in my stash that I didn't want to cut up.  So I designed this quilt using large pieces of my focus fabric in...

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My granddaughter's nursery is decorated in ladybugs.  I designed this fun quilt for her room with flower-pot pinwheels and ladybugs dancing all over the quilt.  The flower pots are done with a ...

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This quilt was all done by applique.  The flowers, the blue block border scallops, and the cream outer border scallops.  I don't usually do quite that much applique on one quilt but I had fun w...

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This was one of the first quilts I gave to my grandson.  He sleeps with it every night.  I had to borrow it back once to take pictures and he cried and cried when I hung it up.  He thought I w...

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Last night I realized I had left my iron on.  No big deal right?  Well unfortunately it was too close to a plastic ziploc bag of scraps that I had setting on my pressing station.  By the time ...

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For one full year my quilt group of twelve fun ladies exchanged 6 1/2" squares of black on white, and white on black fabrics. At the end of the year we each had a large assortment of black and ...

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When I worked at a quilt shop several years ago, I was asked to make a Pineapple quilt for a shop display and class.  I made two versions using the book Positively Pineapple by Lynda Milligan...

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This is my current work in progess.  Dresden Baskets.  I got a little sidetracked with my blogging so I haven't worked on it for about a month.  I hope to get back to it soon.  I have al...

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I love making flying geese with the Quilt in a Day Flying Geese rulers.  I own the large and the small one.  These are the things I love about this ruler, it's  easy, accurate, it makes two ...

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I purchased this Quilt Block Design Mirror by Collins several years ago when I was working at a local quilt shop.  It has been tucked away with some of my rarely used rulers, out of sight out o...

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This quilt was inspired by my grandson who loves to go to the aquarium.  When he was 2 years old,  he thought that anything more than one was two.  I designed this quilt to help him learn to ...

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I love Prairie Points on a quilt.  Here is a quick and easy way to make a double prairie point edge or border that is all in one strip, evenly spaced apart, and ready to stitch to your quilt.  ...

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I know there are lots of tricky ways to make half square triangles now days.  I  like to make mine by using the Angler 2 by Pam Bono Designs.  I have owned this nifty quilting tool for about 9...

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Ok, you know I love quilting, and I love antiques. So here are some pictures of antique and vintage quilts. I guess I should clarify, these are not my quilts (I wish they were).  Mostly just pic...

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Oooops, I made a mistake, please pardon my error. Cinnamon Twist INSIDE SASHINGS: the inner brown flying geese should be facing the same direction as in steps 13, 14, and 16 with the wide part ...

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These are some of the quilts I have made over the years.  I hope you enjoy my quilt show. I used a wide variety of Civil War reproduction fabrics in browns and pinks to make this Broken Star ...

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My friend Michael made me a couple of quilt ladders to display my quilts on. This is a great way to display 4 o 5 quilts at once without taking up much wall space. I have one at the end of my hal...

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This is another of my strip pieced hexagon quilt designs.  I swapped strips of civil war fabric with friends so I would have a huge selection of different fabrics to make my varied hexagon combi...

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I have always loved the look of hexagon quilts such as "Grandmother's Flower Garden" but piecing all those little hexies by hand did not really appeal to me.  To be honest I don't think I would ...

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I designed this quilt to be done by machine applique.  I did a small zig-zag stitch around the folded edge of each piece to applique it to the quilt.  I stitched the heart shaped flower petals ...

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I designed this quilt using the bow-tie block and appliqued cherries.  For the borders I added vintage looking bowls with cherries dangling from them and another round of bow-tie blocks.  I use...

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I saw this tip on Pinterest the other day from a blog called Pennys Hands.  Sharpen your rotary blades by cutting through tin foil.  Being the type of person who can't throw anything away that ...

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This is another fun Valentine quilt I made several years ago.  With, you guessed it, another vintage looking fabric.  Don't you just love all those adorable old Valentines from days gone by?...

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I found this antique looking Valentine fabric a few years ago and being an antique lover, I just couldn't say no to it.  Do you ever have that problem when browsing through a quilt shop?  Some ...

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