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…
Life After Laundry: Starpoint Table Runner
Have you seen Nadra Ridgeway’s Bloom and Bliss Collection? Now available in stores, Nadra’s latest collection has a sweet, cheerful, Scandinavian feel to it. Today, Brenna from Life After Laundry has a lovely little Starpoint Table Runner Tutorial on her blog, featuring the Bloom and Bliss Collection. Isn’t it beautiful? Hop on over to Life After Laundry for…
Traditional Block Thursday: Pieced Star
Today’s tutorial features the beautiful Samantha line from Penny Rose Fabrics. We will be making a Pieced Star today. There are many variations to a pieced star. I chose this one because it has the flying goose unit AND half square triangle units (a great review of how to make half square triangles). Start with…
TBT Modern: Pieced Star
If you have been following along with Bonnie’s Traditional Block Thursday tutorials, you will have mastered the half square triangle and flying geese techniques. In Bonnie’s latest tutorial, the Pieced Star, she combines both techniques to make this beautiful star block. For my modern version of Bonnie’s block, I opted to use Riley Blake Olive…
TBT Modern: Variable Star
Today we tried out the Variable Star block, using Bonnie’s Traditional Block Thursday Variable Star tutorial. In Bonnie’s past two tutorials, we got a chance to play with variations of the Flying Geese block, and this was another fun and simple variation. I decided to do my first block in red and white – a…
TBT Modern: Flying Geese
It’s time for another TBT Modern as once again I attempt to recreate Bonnie’s Traditional Block Thursdayblocks with a Modern aesthetic. I say “attempt” because I felt that today’s block was only partially successful. I really liked how this monochromatic block turned out. The shades of green look so fresh and earthy. I could make…
TBT Modern: Hourglass
Today is Traditional Block Thursday at Penny Rose and Bonnie is showing us how to make this fun Hourglass quilt block! She teaches us a quarter square triangle technique here, so we get to take the half square triangle to the next level – yes, we’re walking on the wild side! My points weren’t all…
Traditional Block Thursday: Crosses & Losses
This installment of Traditional Block Thursday #tbt features a very simple half square triangle block, Crosses & Losses. Also known as Goose & Goslings, Fox & Geese, and Bouncing Betty, this block is easy to put together and allows for many drastically different looks, depending on your color choices. *I used three colors for my…
TBT Modern: Crosses and Losses
In this week’s Traditional Block Thursday post, Bonnie showed us how to make this lovely Crosses and Losses quilt block. All kinds of thoughts ran through my mind when I saw this….butterflies, wings, Star Wars X-Wing space ships, and bow ties. With such a fun and versatile block, you could change the entire look and…
Traditional Block Thursday: Pinwheels
Are you ready for some more traditional block fun? I am finding that so many of the traditional blocks have half square triangles in them somewhere – really such a versatile block. Our block this week is the pinwheel block. I opted to make 4 pinwheel blocks to put together, but you could definitely just…