Red, White, and Blue Four-patch Quilts

Marsha here.  Astrid and I are making on-point four-patch quilts.  We decided to use our red, white, and blue stashes.  This quilt type of construction is great for string-piecing.  That means you feed the blocks, to be sewed together, through your sewing machine one immediately after another.  It saves a lot of thread and time.

This is Astrid and I holding up some of her blocks.  She has the cutest sewing room with a big design wall.

It was a great day for staying in and piecing quilt blocks, because it snowed today!  Now, we just have to snip the threads between each block and press them.  Then we can sew the rest of the white triangles to the other two sides of each block.  We are movin' and shakin'!

Red, White, and Blue Quilt for Phyllis

Special red, white, and blue quilt for friend, Phyllis. Has one block with that Abraham Lincoln fabric, to celebrate President's Day. The outer border is some fun fabric with measure tape people running with needles and wearing thimbles on their button-heads! Again, the blocks in the center are each 1 inch square.

Kirsten Back from the Spa and Planning Another Quilt

Kirsten is planning a red, white, and blue quilt for a friend.  She has decided to stay away from the brights and use some early 1900s style fabrics. She has a few blocks cut out already, but will need 100 to make her quilt.

Kirsten works with layout on her design wall.