by Diane Harris I’m always poking around the web for new ideas, and at the end of last year I stumbled on “temperature blankets.” But since quilters hate it when people call the things they make blankets, I’m going to call this a “climate quilt” instead. I first heard about this with people who knit [...]
It can be tricky to use large prints for patchwork. It's so easy to buy those luscious fabrics, but sometimes not so easy to use them effectively. Scrap quilts are what I make most, and I'm pretty determined to use the stash I've accumulated over 33 years of quilting. So I've devised a couple of [...]
I started two new scrap quilts over the weekend, which meant that I thought much about what would work and what would not. I recently made a new dog, and I don't want that to happen again. (A dog is an ugly quilt. So ugly that it should never see the light of day.) [...]
