For this newer version of the Hammerhead design, I still used Liberty of London Tana Lawn prints, and still explored the process of removing color in some of them, but made an overall lighter background and more jewel-like colors. This design has been made into a pattern, available as a PDF download or printed.
A collection of vintage handkerchiefs all signed by a maker named Jean D’Orly that probably never wiped a nose (at least they don’t show signs). Their colors and patterns are just as vivid today. My personal challenge was to create a modern handkerchief quilt, graphic and unexpected.
This quilt and instructions to make it are in my book Wise Craft Quilts (Roost 2017).
Make the Dash quilt using your favorite set of fat quarters, or a group of your favorite fabrics from your stash. The design is achieved with 2 deceptively simple blocks. And don’t forget a Ruby Ruler®. The secondary pattern emerges when you lay out the quilt. Pattern available as a printed pattern or a downloadable PDF.
The Taupe quilt and instructions to make it are in my book Wise Craft Quilts (Roost 2017). Made with a collection of shirts and pants we were setting out to donate or give away.
This quilt and instructions to make it are in my book Wise Craft Quilts (Roost 2017). Made with a collection of vintage barkcloth prints and a solid yellow sheet.
A scrappy quilt based on the classic quilt pattern called 1000 pyramids. Made with my very lightest fabrics, dividing them up into dark and light color value groups.
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A fat quarter-friendly pattern that uses all your favorite fabrics! Available as a PDF pattern download and a printed pattern. Made originally to showcase the fabric line “Smol” by Kim Kight for Ruby Star Society.
A fat quarter-friendly pattern that uses all your favorite fabrics, and divides them into color value groups using my favorite tool to use for color value, my Ruby Ruler®! Available as a PDF pattern download and a printed pattern. Construction is deceptively simple to do, and the resulting layout creates blocks that are on point.
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Oh my goodness this quilt turned out exactly as I saw it in my mind’s eye. I had just come back from a trip to Portugal, my first real trip after COVID lockdown, and boy did I have a blast taking in all the Lisbon had to offer me. I came home inspired by so much of the colors and tiles that I’d seen there. And the people! They were so nice to this wide-eye, rusty traveller.
Estrela is Portuguese for “Star” and this quilt was inspired by my trip. I imagined many star blocks and the colors were borrowed from the New Mexico sunsets I had missed I had missed while I was away.
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