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 the one that took...

Do you have trouble squaring up your quilt blocks? Recently, I received a request for a tutorial on squaring up quilt blocks, and I thought I'd share my method. This is one of those things you hope to avoid, but it's helpful to know how when you need it!  Squaring up quilt blocks is important when they're not coming out the right size (typically bigger than they should be). It's also important if the blocks are not coming out straight. The corners on a square or rectangular block should be a...

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 starts with seam 1....