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09 Aug

July Old School BOM

I finished my July block just in time to be ready for the August block to be released later this week (on Thursday, the 12th). The July block was a design shared by GoGo Kim, and if you are sewing along, you'll want to keep an eye on Lee Chappell Monroe (May Chappell)'s blog later this week! I opted to...

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26 Jul

Transparent Building Blocks {Pieced Quilt Top}

July 23, 2021
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
transparency quilt, transparent building blocks
5 comments

It was a treat to get to sew together the quilt top for Transparent Building Blocks last week, and below I'm sharing a quick GIF that toggles back and forth between the graphic design based on the fabric pull and the pieced quilt top. I love getting to see how similar the quilt can be to the concept! With the...

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19 Jul

Transparent Building Blocks {Design and Fabric Pull}

July 13, 2021
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
quilt design, transparency quilt, transparent building blocks
12 comments

Some friends are expecting their first child later this year, and I have been working with them on a design and fabric selection to make a baby quilt. They are not going to learn the gender until birth, and other than not wanting something that read as stereotypically gender related, I had pretty free reign to come up with...

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12 Jul

Economy Block {Old School BOM}

I've had my June economy block complete for several weeks, but I got busy making quilts and forgot to share about it. Well, since today marks the next block design share by GoGo Kim, I figured I might as well show you what I made! Kerry shared a really delightful version that creates a pocket at the center of the...

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28 Jun

Love is Love Fabric Collection – Bonus Blocks

June 29, 2021
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
bonus blocks, love is love, pride fabric collection
6 comments

As I mentioned on Friday, the curve star blocks in the Sky Full of Stars quilt create great scraps that can easily be made into 5" finished drunkard's path bonus blocks. Each star can create 4 of the bonus blocks, so with 17 stars in the quilt top, that's a total of 68 bonus blocks. Score! I spent the weekend...

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21 Jun

Love is Love Fabric Collection Sky Full of Stars, Piecing Part 2

June 18, 2021
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
love is love, pride fabric collection, sky full of stars
6 comments

I'd like to continue and expand on the conversation about change that I only very briefly touched on last Friday. There are lots of reasons we, as human beings, can be resistant to change. The amygdala, a part of our brain, interprets change as a threat and releases the hormones for fear, fight, or flight. So our initial reactions to...

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18 Jun

Love is Love Fabric Collection Sky Full of Stars, Piecing Part 1

June 15, 2021
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
love is love, pride fabric collection, sky full of stars
4 comments

Without change, we are stagnant and do not grow. To transform, we have to accept and embrace change. There is so much about the process of creating a quilt that I enjoy. But nothing is quite as magical as seeing the transformation that occurs as a quilt top is pieced. Time to sew a few more seams so we can see...

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14 Jun

Hexie Block Finished {Old School BOM}

I can honestly say that I love handwork. I love hand binding quilts. I've done a little bit of English Paper Piecing (EPP), but only a few blocks. I don't think that doing EPP on a deadline would be a great idea for me, but having this one hexie EPP block in the Old School Block of the Month...

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11 Jun

Stripey Cartwheels Blocks {Old School BOM}

Since the April hexie block is going to take me some time to hand piece, after prepping and getting it ready for hand sewing, I went ahead and pieced the May block for the Old School block of the month sew along. The block for May is from Natalie Santini from Sew Hungry Hippie, and it's a fun two-for-one...

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07 Jun

Old School BOM – April Hexie Block

Once I had my sewing machine set up for quilting Pulsar, I stayed focused and only worked on finishing the quilting. That means that when I finished up the quilt, I was 2 months behind in the Old School Block of the Month sew along. Grateful to have smaller piecing projects to focus on, I started by turning my...

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24 May

Pulsar Thread Usage

I'm thrilled to say that I have finished the quilting on Pulsar and the pattern will be releasing this Friday. I can't wait to share the finish and get the pattern available for you. While I'm doing the hand binding and putting the finishing touches on the pattern, let's take a look at the mound of Dark Navy Aurifil...

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17 May

Pulsar {Quilting Progress}

In order to match the vision and quilting plan that I have for Pulsar, I have been consistently putting in 2-4 hour days of quilting 4-6 days of the week for 6 weeks; and it's not quite finished yet. The first week of quilting was all about changing thread colors and establishing the boundary for the radiating, pulsing star in...

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03 May

MQG Retrospective

In a January newsletter, the Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) announced that it had opened submissions for a modern quilt exhibit at the National Quilt Museum. "The National Quilt Museum will be highlighting a selection of quilts made by MQG members over the past ten years from April 9 through July 27, 2021." I submitted a few quilts for consideration,...

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23 Apr

Pulsar – Pin Basting Tip

I tested out the lap size of the soon-to-be-released Pulsar quilt pattern, which finishes at 72" square. I knew that basting a quilt this size was going to be stretch in our cozy 512 square foot (47.5 square meter) cottage, so after a few days of measuring and planning how to make it work, I was able to give...

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12 Apr

Fussy Cut Block {Old School BOM}

Today, Missie Carpenter (Traditional Primitives) will be releasing the next block in the Old School Block of the Month series, so today I am sharing the block that I made based on Quilt Jane‘s instructions LAST month for the Fussy Cut block. I had previously decided to work with my stash of Carolyn Friedlander's prints to make these blocks, but...

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09 Apr

Pulsar – Quilting Prep

I had just enough Kona Cotton Nightfall to piece the top for Pulsar. When I finished piecing the quilt top, I decided to order more Nightfall for the backing, but since I was placing a fabric order, I went ahead and thought about what project I want to work on next. I plan to make a second version of...

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02 Apr

Pulsar – Quilting Plan Doodling

Now that quilting is my "job", I've tried a lot of different time and organization strategies to see what works for me and keeps my creative juices flowing and my work/life in a reasonable alignment (what is balance anyway?). Right now, what's working for me is this rough schedule: Monday - Friday mornings: Technical Editing + life needs (laundry,...

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26 Mar

Pulsar Piecing and Musings on Storage

March 23, 2021
Posted by Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
piecing, Pulsar
18 comments

My biggest hurdle when working on a project is getting the fabrics cut. I've had my fabrics selected for Pulsar (that I shared earlier this week) for a while, but sharing my fabric pull was finally the push I needed to overcome the inertia and get everything cut out. After that, I've had a fun week of piecing. I learned...

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22 Mar

Pulsar 2.0 Pattern Writing and Fabric Pull

Ever since I made Pulsar in December of 2019, I have intended to come back to it and write a full pattern for the design. Here is what the first quilt looked like: I snatched bits of time over the past several weeks and have finally sorted out the math for how to set the corner blocks for a range...

Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
Quilter | Designer | Tech Editor | Blogger

Yvonne is a former aerospace engineer turned modern quilter, designer, and technical editor. She was introduced to quilting by her paternal grandmother in high school when her grandmother offered to hand quilt a twin-size quilt to use in her college dorm room if Yvonne made the quilt top. Now, over 25 years later, Yvonne has developed a style that bridges her technical background and love of bold color, specializing in transparency color play and bold, geometric designs. Yvonne’s quilts have been featured in numerous national and international magazines, quilt shows, and Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century. She lives on the big island of Hawaii with her husband.