Lightning quilt

Okay so here it is--my very first tutorial. Try not to judge me too harshly. Ever since I made my round 11 quilt for the Doll Quilt Swap I've had quite a few people as me for a tutorial or pattern for it. Well I didn't have one--I just figured it out on the fly. But I thought this might be a good way for me to cut my teeth as far as tutorials go, so here you have it. First of all some notes. All seams are 1/4". This tutorial is for a doll-sized quilt since most inquiries were about that…

I finished the binding last night and all that is left is coming up with my own name for this one. Streak of Lightning is the name of the pattern but it needs a name of its own. I love this quilt and I have a confession: about half of the blocks are made with fabrics that I don't even like and just wanted to use up. When making a scrappy quilt it isn't important to have every fabric as the star. Values are more important than colors in this one, and of course multicolor is one of my favorite…

I've received a couple requests for the pattern I used to create the lightning bolt blocks in my Pink Stars quilt . Since I paper pieced th...

Get out your solids for this month’s striking block lotto challenge: LIGHTNING BOLTS! My flash of inspiration came from Amy’s improv challenge prompt of the Sea-to-Sky Hwy with the zigz…

Carrie Hanks | Quilt made for my husband for Christmas. He wants to go see the northern lights, so this will have to do until we can go. Made with 7… | Instagram

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Hello! My Steven & I bought a new house (Yay!), so all of my sewing supplies are currently living sad little lives inside cardboard boxes. In the interim, I am sitting here at my computer proc…

Did anyone notice that I completely skipped over “Baby #1” when I started posting last fall? I posted the quilts made for babies #2 and #3, but wasn’t quite sure if I had photos …

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