My Wandering Path

Fabric Love, My Patterns, Quilting

Introducing Firm Foundation

Oh, happy day! I’m so excited that I can finally share my Firm Foundation pattern with y’all! Now that the Songbook fabrics are shipping to stores, I have been working overtime to get this pattern wrapped up, and I just want to thank you all for your patience! I’ve been sharing a lot of pics of this quilt in progress, but today I really want to share some of the backstory for the inspiration for Firm Foundation. I’m pretty sure that I literally squealed when I first saw that Stephanie of  ...

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Jardin de Fleurs Quilt-Along: Week 7 (and a Final Giveaway!)

Hello everyone, and welcome to Week 7 of the #swoonforjardin QAL and the soft, golden, French-countryside-inspired light at the end of the tunnel for us! This week, we’re wrapping up the assembly of our quilt tops and showing them off to everyone on Instagram. I couldn’t believe how quickly this quilt top came together once the blocks were all completed! I guess that’s one of the perks of having those big ol’ blocks. I’d trimmed each group of blocks as we constructed them over the course of  ...

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Jardin de Fleurs Quilt-Along: Week 3 (and a Giveaway!)

Hello everyone, and welcome to Week 3 of the #swoonforjardin QAL! This week, we’re making four more Swoon blocks. I hope you’re enjoying the pace of our QAL…I confess, I’m so used to sewing under a deadline and plowing through my blocks that I’m rather enjoying just making these Swoon blocks four at a time! I was trimming up this week’s blocks and noticed, for the second week in a row, that my blocks were just shy of 16 1/2”. And I’m pretty good at sewing a consistent, scant 1/4” seam. If  ...

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Jardin de Fleurs Quilt-Along: WEEK 2

Hello everyone, and welcome to Week 2 of the #swoonforjardin QAL! My apologies for not getting this post up earlier in the day, but…life. Y’all know what I’m talking about! OK, so this week, we are getting into the good stuff…the actual sewing! We’re making four blocks this week. Which four blocks you make is totally up to you: maybe you want to sew the first row, or just your most favorite fabric combinations, or the four blocks with the taupe solid outer star points. Or maybe you’ll be  ...

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