It’s not a Lone Star block, because it has six points instead of eight, but it is a Solo star! I was tinkering with a block idea this week. One that would use up more scraps and could be made with leftover 2½” strips. I love the way it came out! This block could be sized up or down depending on how big you want to make it.  I cut a bunch of 2½” diamonds from leftover neutral strips. I save everything! I have a lot of favorite little stripes and graphic prints that I use to th

Have you ever wanted to make a Grandmother's Flower Garden, but couldn’t bring yourself to piece all those hexies by hand? Well, you are going to love this method! I can appreciate the work that went into vintage quilts, and I love the look of Grandmother’s Flower Garden, but I just can’t make the time to do one by hand. I made a couple of pillows with two different size trapezoids to see how I liked the scale of these flowers. Of course, I love the smaller scale, and that’s

Does this situation look familiar? "Oh points wherefore art thou?!" Cutting the points off your quilt blocks is one of the most frustrating experiences, even for seasoned quilters. I thought I would reverse-engineer this problem so you could see how to avoid it. All blocks with points involve at least three seams. I labeled the seams in order of assembly here. When the points get cut off, it is easy to assume that seam 3 is the culprit… but that is seldom the case! It all sta