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Elephant Parade – Week 6 – Flowers

Posted on: March 8th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to week 6 of the Elephant Parade!  I will be showing a block each week and would like to encourage you to quilt along.  You can try out as many or as few blocks as you like.  Make a quilt or make a mini.  Make a cushion.  Make whatever your imagination leads you to […]

Elephant Parade – Week 5 – Bird

Posted on: March 1st, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to week 5 of the Elephant Parade!  I will be showing a block each week and would like to encourage you to quilt along.  You can try out as many or as few blocks as you like.  Make a quilt or make a mini.  Make a cushion.  Make whatever your imagination leads you to […]

Elephant Parade – Week 4 – Turtle

Posted on: February 22nd, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to week 4 of the Elephant Parade!  I will be showing a block each week and would like to encourage you to quilt along.  You can try out as many or as few blocks as you like.  Make a quilt or make a mini.  Make a cushion.  Make whatever your imagination leads you to […]

Elephant Parade – Week 3 – Frog

Posted on: February 15th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to week 3 of the Elephant Parade!  I will be showing a block each week and would like to encourage you to quilt along.  You can try out as many or as few blocks as you like.  Make a quilt or make a mini.  Make a cushion.  Make whatever your imagination leads you to […]

Elephant Parade – Week 2 – Small Elephant

Posted on: February 8th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to week 2 of the Elephant Parade!  I will be showing a block each week and would like to encourage you to quilt along.  You can try out as many or as few blocks as you like.  Make a quilt or make a mini.  Make a cushion.  Make whatever your imagination leads you to […]

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 […]

Elephant Parade – Week 1 – Large Elephant

Posted on: February 1st, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to the Elephant Parade!  Beginning today, I will be showing a block each week and would like to encourage you to quilt along.  You can try out as many or as few blocks as you like.  Make a quilt or make a mini.  Make a cushion.  Make whatever your imagination leads you to make! […]

Flanged Binding Tutorial

Posted on: January 20th, 2015 by Lorna McMahon

A wonderful method for starting out, and getting some experience with machine finished binding, is a Flanged Binding, also known as a faux flanged binding or piping.  This Flowering Table Runner was finished with a flanged binding. After practicing the flanged binding method on many, many quilts, my confidence grew with experience.  This experience enable […]

Top 10 Tips for New Quilters – Sashing & Borders

Posted on: December 8th, 2014 by Lorna McMahon

Welcome to this week’s installment of the Top 10 Tips for new quilters – Sashing & Borders.  For the complete line up of weekly tips, please see this page. Sashing: The basic building block of a quilt is a quilt block.  Some quilts look fabulous by simply piecing these blocks together.  Some blocks even allow […]

Top 10 Tips for New Quilters – The Seam Ripper is your Friend

Posted on: November 24th, 2014 by Lorna McMahon

It has been quite a while since my last Top 10 Tips for New Quilters post was published.  It’s been a busy time with so many projects and sooooo many giveaways!  In between projects, I thought to myself…. “I better get back at writing these posts.  Either that or I will have to change the […]