• Still Churning – Design Wall Monday

    My design wall this morning has a 15.5 inch liberated churn dash waiting for me. I am enjoying the discovery of different designs within each block which depend on fabric placement. For this one I’ve put the same blue in the centre of each corner triangle. Not sure yet what I’m going to do with…

  • Liberated Churn Dash Making

    One more Giant Liberated Churn Dash completed. 3 to go.One more {not so giant} liberated churn dash completed. 3 to go. Getting there! With Joy,Sarah Vee

  • Tuesday Cake – Blocks & Coffee

    The seams are not perfect on this one. I find that pressing the layer cake pieces actually distorts them a bit. My second excuse?I’ve been making liberated churn dashes:) One more 15.5 inch unfinished churn. Tonight I plan to sew the final set of 4 smaller churns together. Valentine Post Script: I did get to…

  • I Heart You!

    I Heart You!

    I love writing on my blog.I love sharing about my quilting with you.I love all of the great people and quilters I’ve met because of my blog.I love all of the gifts I’ve received too! Like this one: I was one of 3 lucky people to be part of Cherri House‘s Pay It Forward post.This…

  • I Heart Mail

    I Heart Mail

    Fabrics for Michelle’s Sew Modern Bee month. Blocks for my Lady of the Lake quilt! I sent out an SOS through Pat Sloan’s Quilt Mashup Forum when I discovered I was going to be short several blocks in this quilt. So far I’ve been sent blocks and block components so I can mix and match.…

  • Modern Quilting

    Modern Quilting

    I started to get stuck on this question once I pinned my set of liberated churn dashes. They were ready and waiting for some *modern* quilting! I started with my go-to standard and quilted in the ditch around each churn dash. Then I quilted 1/4 inch away from the seam all the way around each…

  • Back to Cake – Block 8

    It’s time for Block 8 of the Layer Cake Quilt Along hosted at Moose on the Porch Quilts.It took me longer to choose and cut my fabrics than to make the block this time. As you can see on the pattern printout, there are two layouts for the block shown. I’m sure you could play…

  • Liberated Churn Dash Quilt Progress

    One set of four Liberated Churn Dash Blocks.Click here for my tutorial. Made by Sew Modern Bee mates. Two panels up on my design wall, which is my front door. Each panel is 30.5 inches square. I’ve started to quilt this one. With Joy,Sarah Vee

  • I Heart Pillows

    I Heart Pillows

    This seems like a timely post. There is lots of LOVE in Blog Land right now for Pillows. Pillows that don’t have to be Red and White, but the hearts are timely too. You can find the pattern for the pillow above{my pattern!}in the February issue of The Quilt Pattern Magazine I made this pillow…

  • Celebrate with Cake!

    FOLLOWERS TAKE NOTE!: I’ve taken the ‘big’ step and got my own domain name.My blog is now located at http://www.sewjoycreations.com/Your links to sewjoy.blogspot.com will still work,BUT, you might want to update!:) BIGGER plans are in the works too. I’m planning on getting smaller:) and more focused at creating with colour. I hope you’ll stick around…