Six White Horses

 I mocked up this "Trip Around the World" baby quilt on graph paper and worked on it in 6x6-square sections. Ruby Star Society's Warp and Weft collection fabrics are lightweight and make for...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2023/01/around-world-baby-quilt.html

This little wintry beauty was inspired by one I saw online somewhere last year... but I can't remember where! My notes say that it was called a "Christmas Star", but I can't find it. If anyo...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2023/01/winter-star-baby-quilt.html

For this bb quilt, I used this great tutorial for a 30" finished "block" and added extra sashing. Lone Stars *look* super impressive... but they come together really quickly. So many ol...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2022/02/lone-star-baby-quilt.html

FINALLY! Someone "ok with pink" had a baby.  

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2021/01/corner-stars-baby-quilt.html

When my daughter was born (um... over 2 years ago...) I finally got to pull out this little patchwork quilt top that I'd been saving "just in case I have a girl" 💗. She's my second child, so.....

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-baby-girl-quilt.html

I've long admired Meg Callahan's quilts, and this baby quilt is inspired by her aesthetic. While I didn't hope to replicate the intricacy and scale of her designs, I stuck to just two fabrics (!)...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2019/06/sliced-stripes-baby-quilt.html

Back when there was still snow on the ground, I finished up this small and sweet triangle patchwork baby quilt. A tiny bit nautical and pretty scrappy! The backing is a 30's-ish orange and white ...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2019/04/triangle-patchwork-baby-quilt.html

This is a sweet, simple improvised baby quilt.   It's made of four "blocks" floated on a white background. Each "block" has a longer "bar" of linen and nearby there are some dashes or s...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2018/11/bars-and-dashes-baby-quilt.html

2017 Wrap up: I made this one quilt 😂 Solitary and adorable. I made 12 blocks  - - what to call them: small granny squares? Plus blocks on point? To construct them, I first made 9-patch b...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2017/12/little-x-baby-quilt.html

This darling baby quilt features flocks of wonky, improvised flying geese in navy, teal, and gold prints and solids. They're set on a greige sky (Kona stone).  Usually, the process of making...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2017/07/improv-flying-geese-baby-quilt.html

This snappy little baby quilt reminds me that sometimes simple designs and fabrics can have the greatest impact.  The gray and white herringbone design is a pretty much straight up copy of t...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2017/01/herringbone-baby-quilt.html

A sampler quilt, of a sort! This past winter, I set out to make a baby quilt out of strips of different patterns-- a fair isle quilt.  I took inspiration from horizontal patterns in quilts a...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2016/07/fair-isle-baby-quilt.html

While we're waiting for spring to start up *for real* (it's snowing right now...), this little aqua and yellow patchwork quilt is a spot of sunshine.   Hopefully some fresh leaves will come ...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2016/03/sunny-patchwork-baby-quilt.html

How did I let this stack of blocks languish in my sewing cabinet for so long (years)? I'm not sure what I was waiting for, but earlier this winter I pulled out blocks accumulated from a few round...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2016/01/citron-and-aqua-sampler-quilt.html

Earlier this fall, I dove into my linen scraps that my friend Lynn at South Street Linen gave me to play around with.  I've used some of her fetching hand-printed linen before, but this time...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/11/modern-linen-baby-quilt.html

This summer, I found myself with an interesting "problem": what to do with leftover half-square-triangle blocks from my Goose in the Corner Medallion quilt.   I've long admired these kinds o...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/09/triangle-arrows-baby-quilt.html

I'm excited to share not only a new project, but also a new paper-piecing pattern: a Glowing Star. This star is based on the same concept as the Lone Starburst -- a layered star -- but with an up...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/07/glowing-star-block-pillow.html

This recent finish is a smaller, baby version of Craft South's free Into the Wild Quilt pattern, measuring up at about 37"x48".  I'm always on the lookout for fabrics that work for...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/07/teal-and-tan-into-wild-baby-quilt.html

Euro Shams are kind of fancy, right? I have a plan to use mine to make some benches in my entryway more comfortable, but they also adorn beds and sofas. These plump 26-inch pillows can easily be ...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/06/easy-quilted-euro-sham-tutorial-with.html

As part of my recent dive back into doing more sewing, I decided to tackle some WIPs.  I found these three Sun, Please!  blocks (from two years ago!) and decided to feature them on a si...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/05/cosmic-red-and-white-baby-quilt.html

It's been a while since I finished a new quilt. Quite a while. It was hard to know where to start when I started to feel like sewing again and had some free time. Pinterest? WIPs? Flickr? My list...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/04/pretty-patchwork-baby-quilt.html

Is summer on its way? Looking at this lap-size quilt, which I finished last summer, is infusing my day with thoughts of boat rides, beach walks, and cocktails on the deck.   I stitched this ...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2015/03/sea-glass-goose-in-corner-medallion.html

Although this little quilt is from wayyy back in the summer, isn't its palette perfectly festive for the holidays?   For this baby quilt, measuring up at about 40x60 inches, I used Film in t...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2014/12/converging-corners-love-llamas-baby.html

Making a strip quilt is one of my favorite ways to showcase fabrics in a baby quilt!  This one is made with mostly Lotta Jansodotter prints, with a few extras thrown in. I love these fabrics...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2014/11/lotta-strips-baby-quilt.html

Gender-neutral, and "for boys" quilts as well, can really be a challenge for me. I have no problem using the whole gamut of colors for girls, so my stash is all over the place, but I tend to like...

https://six-white-horses.blogspot.com/2014/10/shockwave-squares-scrappy-baby-quilt.html