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I love having a library of sewing and quilting inspiration. I'm sharing the three latest books that I've added to my collection.

Modern Plus Sign Quilts by Cheryl Brickey and Paige Alexander contains a wide variety of modern quilts featuring plus signs in numerous interesting ways.

Walk by Jacquie Gering is all about quilting with the walking foot. I can't wait to dive in and try out the techniques featured in the book.

50 Little Gifts, compiled by Susanne Woods has a variety of small projects. This one caught my daughter's eye at PIQF where we were able to see numerous samples of the adorable projects. There are bags, pouches, ornaments, coasters, and more.

You can read about three of my older favorites in this post.

What's your newest or most favorite quilting or sewing book?

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Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs is hosting her fourth annual "Best of" linkup. I've decided to share my five favorite finishes of the year. In no particular order...


Greenery

Greenery was the first Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares quilt that I made. It was the result of the 2017 Pantone Quilt Challenge and my Bay Area Modern guild challenge to make a scrap quilt using squares and rectangles. At the end of 2017 I developed this technique into a workshop. I finished numerous other Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares projects before longarm quilting and finishing this one in 2018. Read more.


Fandangle Scrappy Squares

Fandangle Scrappy Squares is another version of my Planned Improv: Scrappy Squares, I loved working with the cool color way of Christa Watson's Fandangle color palette while exploring the different variations that can be achieved with this technique. Read more.


Pantone Ultra Violet All About Angles

Purple is my favorite color, but so often I don't use it in my quilts. This may be the finish I am proudest of this year. Pantone Ultra Violet All About Angles was pieced in time to submit to the 2018 Pantone Quilt Challenge and received Judge's Second in the "Just the Top" category. The finished quilt hung at PIQF in October 2018. Read more.


Jungle Cabin

Jungle Cabin is one of my favorites because I really loved modernizing the traditional log cabin block by adding negative space and the asymmetry of the overall composition. I look forward to working more with large modern traditional log cabins. Read more.


Connections Mini

The Connections Mini was a mini quilt challenge for Curated Quilts. I loved working with my 8-year-old son on this project. He designed the quilt on the design wall. I pieced it and chose the quilting motif. Read more.

Thanks for visiting. I'll share my most visited posts later in the week. ;-)

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I'm linking up to Cheryl's Best of 2018 Linky Party. And you can see my Five Favorite Finishes from 2017 in last year's post. Stay up to date with what I make in 2019 by subscribing to my newsletter.

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I shared my first twelve Waterfall quilt blocks last week. I haven't had time to stitch more up yet, but I did do the pre-sewing work of laying out the next dozen blocks. I find for the speediest chain piecing it helps for me to have numerous blocks lined up and ready to sew. Since all my cutting was done before I started sewing, this step is pretty quick.

This quilt is made improvisationally with blocks pieced in a variety of values to build the final gradation, so I found it helpful to build multiple blocks at once. I like to use my design wall (or design floor here) to view the blocks side by side. It helps allow me to ensure that I am building light, dark, and medium value blocks. In this batch, I aimed for a couple of them to be half and half on value, where one side is a darker value than the other side.

I'm looking forward to getting these stitched up. They will be my weeks 7, 8, and 9 blocks.