As much as I love playing in the snow, whether sledding with my kiddos, or cross country skiing, or being snuggled warm inside with some hot chocolate, there always seems to come a point where I’m just done with winter and I’m ready to move on to warmer days and sunshine! But alas, we must […]
Author: Diane
Advent Calendar with Melanie Meyer: Day 16: Giveaway & Coupon!
Have you seen the awesome Advent Calendar that Melanie Meyer has over on her website? If not, you definitely need to go check it out! She has 24 days of tutorials, giveaways, and discounts from herself and various pattern designers and quilters. You can click on each previous day, and today’s date, and see what […]
Grandma’s Lawn Chair
Meet Grandma’s Lawn Chair: Grandma’s Lawn Chair is my very first traditionally pieced quilt pattern that I released. It came out in the fall of 2013, and is a fun and popular pattern! The assembly for this quilt is so super quick and easy, that it’s the perfect pattern for gifts, baby quilts, wedding quilts, […]
Simple Star
Meet Simple Star: I designed Simple Star in the spring of 2013. It’s a simple star pattern – hence the name. lol. But is a lot of fun! The included cutting templates make it super easy to fussy cut your fabrics as well as line up your directional prints. An example of all the blocks […]
Star Fruit
Meet Star Fruit: Star Fruit is another pattern that I designed for a swap. My original mug rug, I used my favorite Anna Maria Horner collection, Good Folks, though I think if I did it over, I’d add more solids so the design popped more. 😉 Star Fruit mini quilt I made for a swap […]
Something Springy
Meet Something Springy: Soon after I designed Scrap Attack, I was contacted by Quiltmaker to see if I could design a similar block for their 100 Blocks issue. Something Springy is very similar in the design concept to Scrap Attack, but just a little different… I was pretty excited when they sent me the magazine […]
Winter Holly
Meet Winter Holly: Winter Holly is such a fun pattern!! It’s perfect for a single block, like in a pillow, bag, or mini quilt. But it’s also stunning in a full quilt!! The secondary designs that you can create with this pattern are awesome!! I have a few mock-ups to share… Winter Holly layout 1 Winter Holly […]
Simple Celestial
Meet Simple Celestial: If you’re familiar with my Celestial Star pattern, you’ll recognize that Simple Celestial has the same design elements, just simpler. Celestial Star is a 12 point block, which can be a little more tricky to get all of those center points to line up just right. So I decided to create an option […]
Starry Skyline
Meet Starry Skyline: Starry Skyline is a pattern that I created years ago for a Quilting Bee I was in on Flickr. Were you around for those days?? They were the best! I wrote a tutorial on how to traditionally piece the blog, which you can find HERE. But eventually I decided that I liked […]
Scrap Attack
Meet Scrap Attack: Scrap Attack is where all of this started!! It is my very first pattern I ever created, and it’s been such an awesome journey since then! I designed Scrap Attack in 2011, and sold it on Craftsy for a long time. (Does anyone remember those beginning days of Craftsy! That seems like […]
