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2020 Gonna Bee My (Happy New) Year!

Posted on: January 1st, 2020 by Lorna McMahon

  It’s all Thanks to YOU! Thank you for the kind comments left on my last blog post. Your friendship and support mean so much to me and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday with family and friends. I sure did! And I look forward to this NEW YEAR with you!!! In case you missed that post, here […]

Pork Chop baby quilt

Posted on: August 2nd, 2019 by Lorna McMahon

This little piggy…. Makes me so happy! Look at those faces!   The backing was pieced using some graphic black and white prints found in my stash.     The quilting was performed with edge to edge organic wavy lines made using my walking foot white plain white thread.     “Pork Chop” quilt finished at 38″ x […]

Lamb Chop baby quilt

Posted on: July 27th, 2019 by Lorna McMahon

I don’t know about you…. But I am in love with this new Lamb Chop quilt!     The backing was pieced using some graphic floral black and white prints found in my stash. The quilting was performed with edge to edge organic wavy lines made using my walking foot white plain white thread.   […]

Foxy Christmas quilt and pillowcase set

Posted on: December 15th, 2018 by Lorna McMahon

It’s beginning to look a lot MORE like Christmas now! And making this second sweet set of quilt and matching toddler pillowcase was so much fun!     The fox print is Out Foxed by Michael Miller Fabrics. And you can find all these and other details from my in progress post here. And the backing […]

Simple Sewing and Sweetness

Posted on: December 14th, 2018 by Lorna McMahon

Photo Creds @austin1144 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And making this sweet set of quilt and matching toddler pillowcase was so much fun!   Photo Creds @austin1144 The bird print is Robin in the Hood by Michael Miller Fabrics. The leafy green print for the accent is from the Hopscotch collection by Jamie […]

Vintage Wedding Quilt

Posted on: January 26th, 2018 by Lorna McMahon

  The Vintage Wedding Quilt is done and is now listed for sale in my shop here!     The backing is from the Urban Artifacts collection by RJR Fabrics, which you can view here.  I am simply in LOVE with this print! The colours, the dots, the flowers and the text. It is just such […]

Little Lamb Leaping Quilt

Posted on: January 19th, 2018 by Lorna McMahon

  This Little Lamb is leaping into my heart! I love that sweet face… and those ears…. and those leaping legs.. and that wee tail!     The backing is Widescreen in Grey for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. It matches well with the Architextures in Grey, also by Robert Kaufman Fabrics, used to make the lamb.   Although […]

Santa’s Reindeer – Have A Jolly Little Christmas quilt

Posted on: March 17th, 2017 by Lorna McMahon

  It’s REALLY, really, really beginning to look a lot MORE like… Christmas!   This is my fifth and final finish using the blocks in the free Have A Jolly Little Christmas quilt along. You can read all about that free quilt along here. This block is Santa’s Reindeer and the instructions are scheduled to be posted […]

Making Half Square Triangles – An Updated Tutorial

Posted on: February 6th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

It seems like I have been spending an awful lot of time making HST’s lately.  Last week I shared my progress on my third WoW-E! quilt and that I have plans for making a fourth version using an on point setting.  I must be nuts. WoW-E! in SOLIDS on point – 57″ x 71″ It […]

Top 10 Tips for New Quilters – Binding by Machine

Posted on: January 31st, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to this, the final installment of the Top 10 Tips for new quilters – Binding by Machine.  For the complete line up of weekly tips, please see this page. Binding by Machine: One of my proudest accomplishments in learning how to make a quilt has been developing a machine finished binding method that works […]