New Fabrics

I went on a bit of a shopping trip with my friend and we did some damage.  I am not going to upload pictures of all of that sinful fabric.  I will show you what my friend’s husband go me on one of their fabric jaunts though!  He is not enamored of my sunflower print [...]

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Double Delight EQ5 file

For those who need the Electric Quilt 5 version of Double Delight, I redrew the quilt in EQ 5 using Bonnie’s colors.  This file contains a lap-size version of Double Delight as well as Bonnie’s original size.  I also used Bonnie’s colorings for the project. Download the file by clicking here. 

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Double Delight EQ 6 file

My Double Delight Electric Quilt file can be downloaded by clicking here. Bonnie Hunter at Quiltville is the creator of the original Double Delight pattern.  My EQ  file contains a lap-size version of the quilt Bonnie created, the original size quilt on Bonnie’s Quiltville site, and my king-size version of the quilt I altered in the [...]

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Double Delight Plans

I liked both fabrics I chose before, but I have settled on the sunflower borders.  I want to make this king size though.  To do that, I will add another fabric in yellow into the blocks and then alternate the colors of the blocks in “boxes” or rings.  I will start with a cheddar star block [...]

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Plain border or busy border?

I have about 10 of each DD blocks done.  While on our road trip, I helped my friend find a border for her DD.  But I realized I hadn’t really considered mine (after the trip was over of course).  I am not sure which way I want to head.  Busy or plain?  What would you [...]

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My Double Delight Update

A fellow quilter on the quiltville blog asked how my quilt based on a coneflower from my garden was going: it is going fine, but slow, my kids have been keeping me busy! I had to pull the one yellow out of my palette since I had picked too many colors, but I think the [...]

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Double Delight Progress

I have a bit of a cold and the kids had a snow day today, so I did not get too much sewing done. We watched The Bee Movie and made popcorn this afternoon!

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My Double Delight Blocks

I have been working on the smaller units for Bonnie’s Double Delight quilt.  Today I made two of the blocks.  I think they are pretty cool.

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