I've been making simple Log Cabin quilt blocks and I'm having a great time imaging where the design could go. I'm using a free pattern from Quilter's World in a mystery sampler called Awash with Color, Block 1. I'm starting with lights so that my last addition is darks. I'm sewing from my stash and [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I quilted another UFO and for the first time I do not feel like I totally messed it up. I think I have turned a corner. This is a crib-size quilt I made from two sets of UFO blocks. The flowers are from a pattern called Daisiez by [...]
Recently I needed new samples for a class I'm teaching in June about improvisational curved piecing. I didn't have anything specific in mind and started with easy cutting and sewing. I used the HQ Stitch 510. I used big, bold prints with plenty of contrast. When you have contrast, you can clearly see the difference [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador During the last few weeks of 2019, I took inventory of the unfinished projects in my studio. UFOs (as they're called in quilt world) don't bother me or cause me guilt, but seeing them all together did motivate me to reimagine them and do some serious finishing in [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I came across a wonderful scrap quilt recently. It's called Pink/Orange/Yellow Try-Angles and it was designed and made by Johnny Barfuss. Pink/Orange/Yellow Try-Angles by Johnny Barfuss Johnny works as a Studio Educator for Handi Quilter in North Salt Lake, Utah. Johnny told me the story of Try-angles. Johnny [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador Fourth of July is almost here and it's time to enjoy some patriotic quilts. We begin with the mother of all patriotic quilts, America, Let It Shine by Sherry Reynolds from Laramie, Wyoming. This quilt won numerous prestigious awards about six years ago, including Best of Show at [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I hosted a quilt retreat in Colorado last week. Today I'm sharing a few highlights of our time together. A colorful ombré jelly roll became this colorful quilt top. I had never seen an ombré jelly roll made into something so lovely as this quilt top. Now I [...]
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 [...]
