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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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 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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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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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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A wrinkly and poorly executed inset circle sewn into background fabric made with 4 pieces of fabric sewn together with the finished exposed seam technique developed by Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl. This inset circle test block is testing if the finished exposed seam technique can be used with inset circles, and this first test block is a very three-dimensional, non flat result. The fabrics used in the test block are orange, yellow, lime green, and mauve.
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29 May
Quilts

Down the Rabbit Hole…

I made 4 more blocks as part of the Rainbow Improv project last weekend and then paused to do more design wall arranging and thinking. It's starting to come together, and what it really needed was a center block to pull it all together. Great news: I found the *perfect* print in my stash for the center block. The...

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Four quilting blocks, arranged in rainbow order, made using the finished exposed seams technique being developed by Yvonne Fuchs of Quilting Jetgirl.
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18 May
Quilts

Rainbow Improv | Finished Exposed Seams {Block Piecing}

After finishing the last batch of charity blocks, I was ready start piecing my next finished exposed seams quilt. The general idea was to work with a rainbow of color and to expand the improv idea I tested with Topsy-Turvy into a larger quilt. I have really been enjoying working with prints for these finished exposed seams quilts, and I...

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An angular, non-rectangular mini quilt finish using gray fabrics and the finished exposed seams technique developed by Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl, made to explore gentle improv curves with the exposed seams technique.
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15 Apr
2026 Finished Quilts

Topsy-Turvy {Finished Quilt}

So far, this year has felt like the it should be entered as part of the definition of topsy-turvy. As in... top·sy-tur·vy adjective 1. being in a state of confusion or disorder, with many unpredictable changes or reversals. "in one topsy-turvy week, they cancelled a vacation to Italy" adverb 1. in or into a state of confusion or disorder. "things turned topsy-turvy in 2026" The...

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2718
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12 Feb
2026 Finished Quilts, Quilt Gallery

2718 {Finished Quilt}

It took several purchases from Sewtopia to refine my fabric selection for 2718, including a special assist from a friend who had the purple print I was considering in her stash (it's the one I ended up using)! Just like with Half In Half Out, I knew I wanted to stick with a single fabric manufacturer for this quilt,...

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Half In Half Out
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05 Feb
2026 Finished Quilts, Quilt Gallery

Half In Half Out {Finished Quilt}

While I started iterating on the fabrics for the 2718 quilt, I knew I had time to explore working with the exposed seam hourglass blocks. Because I learned from the One Ninth mini quilt that working with the same fabric manufacturer was beneficial across longer seams, I went straight to my stash of Carolyn Friedlander prints for this mini...

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One Ninth
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29 Jan
2026 Finished Quilts

One Ninth {Finished Quilt}

After exploring the exposed seams idea with a few test blocks and making an exposed seams mini mini quilt, I knew the idea had potential. I spent about a week thinking about quilt design options, and by the end of the week I had a handful of designs that I thought had potential with even more ideas rattling around...

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Exposed Seams Mini Mini Quilt - HSTs
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22 Jan
2026 Finished Quilts

Exposed Seams Mini Mini Quilt {Finished Quilt}

Now that QuiltCon judging is over, I am thrilled to start sharing with you a series of quilts that I made last year. Over the course of the next four weeks, I am going to share four quilts that I made last year. The first two finishes that I will share with you (today and next week) are exploratory...

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