I’ve given the blog a face lift. It had been over a year since the last time, so it seems that I was due. I really wanted to incorporate actual sewing of the tumbling blocks quilt pattern into the header, so there we have it. There’s nothing wrong with linen and gray, right? The blocks were my first go at English paper piecing, and I can see why so many people find it addictive. They’re like potato chips—you can’t stitch just one. Doing the 60 degree diamonds was a bit tricky, though, because there was a lot of fabric to wrap around the pointy tip. You don’t have to worry about that with the hexagons though, now do you?
While I was giving the face lift, I also added a Tutorials heading and a Contributing heading to the side bar. I’ve just been meaning to do that forever, and now they’re there for easy reference. Hope you like.
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I like the new header!
love it!! so sophisticated!!
The new look is fantastic. I really like the tumbling blocks in linen .. nice touch.
pure awesomeness
it is gorgeous!! I love it!!
I love it! I have sort of a tumbling blocks fetish. I’ve actually done two tumbling blocks quilts and have at least one more planned. They are tricky but I love the result. I absolutely refuse to use the new "Not Your Grandmother’s Tumbling Blocks" method.
Wonderful! I really love the blocks. I wish I knew how to overhaul my blog – I’d probably post more. It’s just one skillset I never got to. What do you use to create your stuff?
Hope to see you at the Market soon… this weekend’s going to be HAWT!
Hi, I am about to make a baby quilt using the tumbling block pattern
but, I don’t want the entire quilt as blocks. I plan to have several
rows of blocks stacked on top of each other in the center of the
quilt. The problem is I don’t know what to do around the stacked
blocks. How do I encorprated it into the solid background pieces
(blocks). Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Susan
Just started my website.
Learning to do tumbling blocks. I like the looks of the hand sewing way. I try to do it on my sewing machine, and it gets frustrating.