by Kristin Esser
Welcome back for Week 3 of the Piece and Quilt Hop Along. For those just joining–my friends HollyAnne, Vicki, and I are quilting along in Christa Watson’s new book Piece and Quilt with Precuts. If you need to play catch up, start here. Squiggles Quilt I’m so excited to show you my finished Squiggles […]
Welcome to my stop on the La Conner Blog Tour! I am so excited to share this fabric line with you! This line is just the sweetest mix of strawberries, florals, and ginghams–and several of the prints have little flecks of gold for an […]
Welcome back for Week 2 of the Piece and Quilt Hop Along. For those just joining–my friends HollyAnne, Vicki, and I are quilting along in Christa Watson’s new book Piece and Quilt with Precuts. You can check out last week’s post here. Squiggles Quilt This week I finished up the Squiggles quilt top […]
Welcome to week 1 of a new blog series called Piece and Quilt Hop Along. I am once again joining my friends HollyAnne and Vicki to quilt along in Christa Watson’s new book Piece and Quilt with Precuts. Christa has done it again designing fast, […]
Today I’m sewing along with the Fat Quarter Shop for the Lady of the Lake Blog Tour. As soon as I saw this sweet pattern, I knew I had to try my hand at this quilt block. Half square triangles are totally my jam, and […]
I recently had the opportunity to view Christa Watson’s new Craftsy class, called Startup Library Quilting. I am a big fan of Christa’s work—I purchased her Quilter’s Path class as soon as it came out and learned a ton about machine quilting from it. I […]
It’s the final week on the Machine Quilting Blog Hop! Thanks for staying with me on this Free Motion Quilting Adventure. Before we get to quilting–I wanted to remind you that we are doing an awesome giveaway this week! Martingale has generously provided each of the […]
Welcome back to the penultimate post on the Machine Quilting Blog Hop! Next week we are wrapping this series up with an awesome giveaway! Martingale has generously provided each of the blog hoppers ( HollyAnne, Vicki, Jen, and me) a copy of The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting to […]
We are coming into the homestretch of the Machine Quilting Blog Hop. This week we are practicing the motifs in the chapter called U-Turns from The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting. The hardest motif for me this week is simply Loops. I practiced them all week on paper in boring meetings. They […]
I had a bit of a hard morning and as I sat down this afternoon to do some hand piecing, I thought that I’d share a few thoughts with you on how to hand piece and why hand sewing has become so important to me. Let […]