As I mentioned earlier, I’m piecing the back to my Chinese Coin quilt, aka Side B. I ended up with a lot of extra coins. In fact, enough to make another quilt. So that’s what I’m doing. Only, I’m making a different style Chinese Coin quilt. Instead of the neat row and column look, I’m going for the staggered look. I mocked up a section of the quilt in photoshop. Just imagine it in color. [...]

About three months ago, my quilt group exchanged 2.5″ fabric strips. We each gave away eight stacks of 25 strips 2.5″ by 22″ (the length of a fat quarter) with no duplicates in each stack. The goal was to use fabric from your stash. I’ll be honest, before I started cutting fabric, I didn’t think I had enough fabric without cutting into the “precious” fabric. Well not only did I have enough fabric, I have [...]