The finished Topographic Texture quilt, made and quilted by Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl. The photograph is of a 48" wide by 49" tall quilt that places colors in colorwheel order mixed with off-white prints. The blocks were pieced improvisationally using gentle curves and Yvonne's finished exposed seams technique. The quilt is finished with a charcoal gray print to act as a frame.
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19 Oct
2026 Finished Quilts

Topographic Texture {Finished Quilt}

I put the finishing touches on Topographic Texture yesterday afternoon, and I'm utterly smitten with this finish! Continuing to explore making a functional quilt with the finished exposed seam technique that I developed last year, Topographic Texture further develops my idea by examining how these seams handle curves. From gentle improvisational curves to more traditional inset circles, I wanted to...

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14 Oct
2026 Finished Quilts, Block Tutorials, Mini Quilt Tutorials

Fall Leaf Block & Placemat Tutorial {Fall Fortnight Blog Hop}

Welcome to the Fall Fortnight Placemat Blog Hop. Hello and if this is your first time visiting my blog, welcome! I’m Yvonne and my blog and business name is Quilting Jetgirl which blends my professional careers as a quilt pattern designer and an aerospace engineer. Today, I'm happy to share a new Fall Leaf Block tutorial and 4 different ways...

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A marked up photograph of one section of the Topographic Texture quilt Yvonne is currently quilting, showing the variation in gaps between quilting lines (marked by the blue lines) and area where the pattern was not followed in the same manner (marked inside the red circled area)
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07 Oct
Quilts

Topographic Texture {Quilting Progress}

After over a month lapse in progress, last week I got back to quilting my current in work project. I had been calling the project "Rainbow Improv" for lack of a real name, and one of the things I did while I finished quilting the remaining colored print sections was consider what I really wanted to name this quilt....

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The finished twelve low volume scrappy color row charity blocks.
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28 Sep
Quilts

Low Volume Scrappy Color Row Charity Blocks

After a break from sewing, small projects like mini mini quilts or charity blocks are always a great way for me to pick back up. Thankfully, the next Many Hands and Many Hearts charity block drive was announced at the end of August, so the requested Low Volume Scrappy Color Row charity blocks were on my menu to sew...

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25 Sep
Linky Party

Favorite Quilt Finish {September 2026}

Welcome to the September 2026 Favorite Quilt Finish monthly linkup. I look forward to seeing and celebrating your favorite quilt finish of the month! Ready to celebrate? Here are the Favorite Finish linkup party details: Please only link up one quilt / blog post – your favorite fully finished quilt for the month. Please link up to a blog post or...

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15 Sep
Quilt Pattern

Deft {Pattern Release}

While time at my sewing machine has been scant recently (see what I did there???), I have still been able to keep some quilting activity moving forward on my computer. Today, I'm very happy to release my newest quilt pattern, Deft. Many of you may recognize Deft as my response to the Project Quilting prompt of "Follow Your Arrow" from...

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7 friendship bracelets on Yvonne's left wrist in red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, and purple.
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08 Sep
Life

Rainbow Friendship Bracelets

Wow, it looks like I took an inadvertent break from blogging; my last blog post was 4 weeks ago. Since then I've only spent 3 days making more progress quilting my current WIP. Instead, I've been focused on lots of different life stuff. Some of that "stuff" included getting away to the coast for a few days. Pacific Grove is...

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28 Aug
Linky Party

Favorite Quilt Finish {August 2026}

Welcome to the August 2026 Favorite Quilt Finish monthly linkup. I look forward to seeing and celebrating your favorite quilt finish of the month! Ready to celebrate? Here are the Favorite Finish linkup party details: Please only link up one quilt / blog post – your favorite fully finished quilt for the month. Please link up to a blog post or...

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View of the back of the Rainbow Improv quilt being made by Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl. This photograph shows her current quilting progress with about 60% of the colored fabric sections from the front of the quilt quilted.
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10 Aug
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Quilting Progress Update}

My motto is currently, "slow and steady wins the race." I have 29 of the rainbow colored fabric sections quilted (16 to go) and 12 of the background sections quilted (36 to go). Overall, that means I have 41 of 93 sections quilted, so I have 44% of the quilting complete. To be honest, I'm really surprised I have that...

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A compilation of 4 detail photographs that showcase various quilting styles and quilting stitch lengths, from hand quilted to machine quilted, with a text overlay that says Quilting Stitch Length Discussion with the Quilting Jetgirl logo.
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03 Aug
Discussion

Quilting Stitch Length {Discussion}

I can tell that quilting the Rainbow Improv Exposed Seams quilt is going to take me quite a while, so instead of sharing more quilting progress photos this week, I thought I'd open up a discussion. I always look forward to seeing where the conversation goes, so don't miss out on the insights and thoughtful responses that I'm sure...

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27 Jul
Linky Party

Favorite Quilt Finish {July 2026]

Welcome to the July 2026 Favorite Quilt Finish monthly linkup. I look forward to seeing and celebrating your favorite quilt finish of the month! Ready to celebrate? Here are the Favorite Finish linkup party details: Please only link up one quilt / blog post – your favorite fully finished quilt for the month. Please link up to a blog post or...

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A zoomed in photograph of the center block of the rainbow improv exposed seams quilt so that the quilting is visible. The central Alison Glass print is quilted in a spiral and the outer background fabric is echo quilted.
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27 Jul
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Center Block Quilting}

I've made more progress on quilting than just the center block, but I think describing the process of quilting the center block will explain why quilting the Rainbow Improv Exposed Seams quilt might take me a bit of time. I used the Coming Up for Air mini quilt to test out how I wanted to quilt the center. The biggest...

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The 25 exposed seams improv blocks made and arranged in rainbow colorwheel order by Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl sewn into a pieced quilt top on a design wall.
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20 Jul
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Pieced & Basted}

I had a slightly more productive week in the studio than I had anticipated! I spent Monday and Tuesday sewing the blocks together into three rows. Moving slowly and with care, it took me a day to sew the top row to the middle and then another day to sew the bottom row to the top. I was really pleased to...

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Assembly progress photo of 25 quilt blocks made using gentle improv curves and the finished exposed turn-and-straight-stitch seams method arranged in color wheel order (from red in the upper left through orange-yellow in the upper right through green-blue in the lower right and purple-blue in the lower left) on a quilt design wall. The four corner blocks are sewn together, top and bottom rows have two blocks sewn into a column, and the 5 center blocks are sewn into a row.
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13 Jul
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Assembly Progress}

After getting the Potato Chip charity quilt blocks dropped off at the post office on Monday, I pulled out the Rainbow Improv blocks and placed them back on my design wall. Over 3 afternoons, I was able to make pretty good progress getting the blocks assembled. In each corner, 4 blocks are sewn together. The top and bottom rows also...

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36 complementary color (orange with blue center, blue with orange center, yellow with purple center, purple with yellow center, red with green center, and green with red center) potato chip charity quilt blocks on a quilting design wall.
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07 Jul
Quilts

Potato Chip Charity Blocks

Yesterday afternoon I hustled to get 36 Potato Chip charity quilt blocks for Many Hands and Many Hearts finished and dropped off at the post office. Cynthia requested that the blocks be made using complementary colors: red with green centers or green with red centers / purple with yellow centers or yellow with purple centers / blue with orange centers...

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The 2026 Quilting Check In second quarter link up logo created by Mell Meyer; the logo features a series of connected dots in a zigzagging line on the left hand side and a white box with the Quilting CheckIn text on the right.
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02 Jul
Life, Linky Party

#2026QuiltingCheckIn Q2

After a very busy Q1, things here had an expected slow down in the second quarter of the year. Life-wise I am still working through a recent (hopefully temporary) hyperthyroidism diagnosis. I experienced a short term hyperthyroidism diagnosis almost exactly 2 years ago, and the symptoms this time have been very, very similar: loss of energy (I need a...

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The final, trimmed 25 quilt blocks made using gentle improv curves and the finished exposed turn-and-straight-stitch seams method arranged in color wheel order (from red in the upper left through orange-yellow in the upper right through green-blue in the lower right and purple-blue in the lower left) on a quilt design wall.
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29 Jun
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Block Piecing Complete}

For a variety of reasons, life has been keeping me from spending much time at my sewing machine over the past month. This Rainbow Improv project that I've had on my design wall has been exactly the project I need for this season. Instead of making a lot of physical progress, I was able to let the fabric hang...

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26 Jun
Linky Party

Favorite Quilt Finish {June 2026}

Welcome to the June 2026 Favorite Quilt Finish monthly linkup. I look forward to seeing and celebrating your favorite quilt finish of the month! Ready to celebrate? Here are the Favorite Finish linkup party details: Please only link up one quilt / blog post – your favorite fully finished quilt for the month. Please link up to a blog post or...

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This is a photograph of a foundation paper pieced courhouse steps quilt block that depicts a house. The quilt block is made using solids in blues, browns, creams/off-whites, and with a red center. The quilt block is photographed on top of a green OLFA rotary cutting mat with a 45-mm OLFA rotary blade and scraps of fabric used to piece the block surrounding the block in the upper left and upper right corners.
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24 Jun
Quilts

Building a Village {FPP Quilt Block | Community Quilt}

I was intrigued by posts Audrey from @cottonandbourbon on Instagram over the weekend. She was clearly testing out and working on a really cute quilt block and said she'd be making a special announcement on Monday. It's likely you have already seen her special announcement: she put out a call for help building a village of FPP quilt blocks...

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The center 9 blocks of the rainbow improv exposed seams quilt. The outer 8 quilt blocks are arranged in colorwheel order starting with pink/red in the upper left hand corner and surround a center block made using an Alison Glass rainbow panel.
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15 Jun
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Block Piecing Part 2}

Let's pick back up where the initial Rainbow Improv block piecing post ended: I spent a week staring at these pieces on the design wall and I finally realized what was bothering me: I only wanted a single block between each of the previously pieced first 4 blocks. Once I came to that realization, I spent a few days piecing...

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