Sign up to follow by email! CLICK HERE

Posts Tagged ‘Free Spirit’

Sweater Weather for Quilty Magazine

Posted on: October 27th, 2017 by Lorna McMahon

  Earlier this year, I was contacted by Quilty magazine. I was also approached to make a submission for a quilt to be featured in an upcoming issue. This was the design I settled on. Elaborating on an earlier quilt I made called Ugly Christmas Sweaters, I drew up a revised design on grid paper […]

Let’s Bee Social #174

Posted on: April 26th, 2017 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to the Let’s Bee Social! So glad to have you join us for the Let’s Bee Social weekly linky party!   I’ve always found the Economy Block, also known as the Diamond in a Square or Square in a Square quilt block, interesting. So when I was approached by Free Spirit Fabrics, asking if […]

On Point – The Evolution of a Quilt

Posted on: May 1st, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

When I spent a few days with my mother, following her knee replacement surgery this past September, I brought along a pad of graph paper, a pencil and an eraser.  This block design is one of the things that came about during that time. What started out as a little sketch… Turned into a design […]

Granny Square Quilt Blocks

Posted on: March 7th, 2014 by Lorna McMahon

What a week!  What started out simple enough has turned into sew much more! Since Monday, I have been working on my very first Granny Square blocks, made from a 20 piece jelly roll of True Colors by Anna Maria Horner for Free Spirit.  This yielded 20 blocks.  The finished quilt is approximately 33″ x […]