Quilts with striped fabric

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It’s no mystery that I love striped fabric! I mean, the design possibilities are endless. Just this week, I found yet another use for my beloved stripes, and I’m excited to share!I made some striped “woven” diamond blocks as fill-in blocks for a quilt, and they turned out so well that I am already working on them in a few more sizes.Here is what you will need to make a mirror image set of these blocks. I cut two strips from my striped fabric, one 6½” wide and the other 4⅝” wide. I kept the…

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Last month at one of my quilt groups we had a guest speaker who represents Festival of Trees. She was there to talk about the quilts that are auctioned off to raise money for Primary Children's Hospital. Besides those fancy quilts, she also spoke of quilts that are priced and for sale in their shop at the show. Last year I had a few girls help me tie some small doll quilts which were sold {tutorial found here}.

And now for something different....I made a quilt with colours I don't care for. I was attracted to the design mostly and decided to challenge myself to work with the Kona colours suggested by the pattern Elements by Ariga Mahmoudlou, a free pattern by Robert Kaufman. I now kinda like it since adding the striped binding and so I will probably love it once it comes out of the dryer. I had a lot of tension issues while free motion quilting which resulted in some thread nests on the back (which…

Pretty colorful...doesn't match a thing in my house...but it's happy :-) I was inspired by this awesome tutorial by Jenny, from the Missouri Star Quilt Company! quiltingtutorials.com/all/summer-park-quilt-jelly-rolls/