I've been working on 3 small, non-quilt projects lately. First up is a bench pillow from a kit from Riley Blake Designs "Bring May Flowers"
Next is an 18" pillow, again from a kit from A Quilter's Garden in Montpelier, VT. The pattern is named "Coming to Center".
And, lastly is a pair of Patriot's pillowcases I made for Nick from the burrito pillowcase pattern (free) found here.
This was a kit I picked up at Quilt Away Fabrics in Westminster, VT. I added additional borders (1 1/2 and 3") to bring it up to 50 X 58 inches in size. The original kit finished at 40 X 48. Quilted with Around We Go by Nancy Haacke.
This block is known by several names, including Hugs and Kisses and Arkansas Crossroads. I made another version back in April from 2 1/2 inch squares. This version uses 2 inch squares and 35 blocks to get to a finished size of 46 X 64. Quilted with Westphalia 3 by Christie Dillon of My Creative Stitches. I bound this with the same fabric as I used for the backing.
This quilt was created from a pattern named Dot to Dot by Nancy Mahoney. Machine appliqued circles. Quilted with Dash it All pattern by Christy Dillon of My Creative Stitches. It measures 59 1/2 inches square.
The first quilt is made from a pattern in the book "More Quilts For Baby" called Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away. It measures 40 1/2 X 46 1/2 inches and quilted with Element of Water by My Creative Stitches. I used a fleece backing on this with no batting. The color of the fleece pulled through to the top when I quilted it. Never again a fleece backing without a batting! And, after this I had stitch issues with my Gammill.
Then I wanted to use up the construction fabric so I used the cut off triangles from the first quilt to form pinwheels and winged the rest of the creation of the top! This measures 49 inches square and I also used Elements of Water to quilt it with.
This is a quilt using the "no more tears" paper piecing tecnique from a class I took with David Sirota at the Vermont Quilt Show in June 2026. Love this technique - no mess!. The quilt measures about 48" square. I used the Skewed Blocks quilt design from Karen of Wildflower Quilting. I used almost all of the leftover fat quarters pieces for the binding.
This is a pattern from Villa Rosa. It measures 66 X 82 and was quilted with Bugaboo by Christy Dillon of My Creative Stitches
