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Book Club: A Hand Pieced Quilt Along Pattern

Book Club: A Hand Pieced Quilt Along Pattern

Are you ready to get started? Today we are releasing the pattern for the 2020 Hand Pieced Quilt Along, called Book Club. This year we are making the pattern available as a PDF download for $10. You can quilt along with us, with lots of […]

Announcing the Hand Pieced Quilt Along 2020 (and Quilt Reveal!)

Announcing the Hand Pieced Quilt Along 2020 (and Quilt Reveal!)

So many people had fun learning to hand piece last during last year’s Hand Pieced Quilt Along that we decided to do it again! Patty from Elm Street Quilts is co-hosting once again with me. This year’s quilt along is a natural extension of last […]

Hand Pieced QAL: A Rainbow Quilt

Hand Pieced QAL: A Rainbow Quilt

We are coming into the final days to link up your quilt top in the Grand Prize Drawing for the Hand Pieced Quilt Along. To qualify for the prize, it must be linked up by April 30, 2019. It has been amazing to see all […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Grand Prize Link up

Hand Pieced QAL: Grand Prize Link up

We made it! This is the final link up for the Hand Pieced QAL. It started with a simple four patch and ended with a fairly intricately pieced tiny double-pinwheel block! Well done! It has been so fun watching your progress, throwing together impromptu “kitchen […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Grand Prizes Revealed!

Hand Pieced QAL: Grand Prizes Revealed!

Can you believe that we are almost to the end of the QAL? It’s time to turn those gorgeous blocks you’ve been piecing into a quilt top, if you haven’t already! But no worries, we’ve given you lots of time to catch up on blocks […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Sashing and Quilt Top Assembly

Hand Pieced QAL: Sashing and Quilt Top Assembly

It’s week 10 in the Hand Pieced Quilt Along–are you ready to put together your quilt top? The full tutorial for two different settings are over on Patty’s blog, Elm Street Quilts. I can’t believe how fast this QAL has gone! It has been so […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Week 9 Link-up

Hand Pieced QAL: Week 9 Link-up

This link-up will be open for one week – until Thursday, March 28 (4 am EST/1 am PST).  You are welcome to share any and all of the blocks you completed this week. When this link-up closes, a new one will open (magic!) so please […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Emmeline Block (Block 9)

Hand Pieced QAL: Emmeline Block (Block 9)

It’s the last block of the Hand Pieced QAL! Can you belive it? Our final block is called Emmeline, because it’s a little bit fancy, just like the character from Friendship Album 1933. It has been so fun to see all the different versions of […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Week 8 Link-up

Hand Pieced QAL: Week 8 Link-up

This link-up will be open for one week – until Thursday, March 21 (4 am EST/1 am PST).  You are welcome to share any and all of the blocks you completed this week. When this link-up closes, a new one will open (magic!) so please […]

Hand Pieced QAL: Bess Block (Block 8)

Hand Pieced QAL: Bess Block (Block 8)

It’s week 8 on the Hand Pieced Quilt Along, and today we are hand piecing  the Bess Block. Bess is a no nonsense widow in the novel Friendship Album 1933, and a character that I relate to the most (because she has teenage children, not […]