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TBT Modern: Weather Vane

  Today marks our final quilt block tutorial for Traditional Block Thursday! I hope you have enjoyed following along and learning a new trick or two from Bonnie. Today, Bonnie shows us how to make this beautiful Weather Vane quilt block. The Weather Vane block pulls together several different techniques she has taught us over…

Weather vane

Traditonal Block Thursday: Weather Vane

Our last block for our #tbt Traditional Block Thursday is this beautiful Weather Vane Block. This block “dates back to the time when great-grandmother used that commodity to ‘calc’late a change,’ instead of listening to a scientific forecast on the radio. But her pattern, the weather vane, is one of the loveliest of our old-time…

Sew Simple Shapes

Sew Simple Shapes

  Today we get to talk about these fun little shapes designed by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs. Sew Simple Shapes are templates used for applique work and Lori has created tutorials to show you various ways of using these handy little pieces of plastic perfection. Lori’s first tutorial shows you how to use…

Jedi Craft Girl: Farmers Market Quilt

Jedi Craft Girl has a Free PDF on her blog for this lovely Farmer’s Market Quilt. Aren’t those fussy cut squares just adorable? The Vintage Market fabric collection was designed by Tasha Noel and is available in quilt shops. The top of the quilt features cute a cute little bunting banner applique, and notice the…

Traditional Block Thursday: Snowball

We are nearing the end of our Traditional Block Thursday Series, but there is one more technique I want to show you. Thus far, we have learned strip-piecing, half square triangles, quarter square triangles and flying geese. We aren’t going to delve into applique in this series – we’ll just stick with piecing, but there…

TBT Modern: Snowball

Today I am excited to show you this fun Snowball quilt block! I really love the simple look and versatility of this block. Because it is called the Snowball, I decided to make one block to go with the icy winter theme. I chose four different cool blue tones. I think a whole quilt made…