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I'm excited to announce that the December featured pattern is the Give and Take quilt. The pattern and video course will be on sale at 20% off in the shop for the entire month of December. We'll be featuring tips and tricks for how to make your own gorgeous Give and Take quilt in the newsletter. And we've got a maker spotlight here on the blog to inspire you as you consider what direction to go in as you design your quilt.  Everybody's design mind works differently. The great thing about the Give and Take pattern is it appeals to...

Welcome to Week 7 of the Big Ocean Sew Along, our final week! Now that we have a quilt top put together, we need to decide how to finish it. This week I’ll share with you my process for deciding how to quilt each of the Big Ocean quilts I’ve made, and give you some tips for quilting yours. Be sure to join us tonight at 4pm on Zoom at the Big Ocean Sew Along Wrap Up Party! We’ll show off our quilt tops and other progress, and troubleshoot quilting plans if anyone needs help!  There are so many options...

It’s hard to believe it is already week 6 of the Big Ocean Sew Along! We have done all of the design work. All that’s left is to sew our blocks together, and finish our quilts! These last steps are about using whatever small tips and tricks you have for using precision and sewing accuracy to influence the final look of your Big Ocean quilt. Today, I’ll be sharing a few techniques I use for that.  Now that your design is final, you are ready to start sewing our blocks together. At this point in the process, take a picture...

Welcome to Big Ocean Week 5! We are more than halfway through making our quilt and the end is in sight. Be sure to join us at our Zoom progress party tonight! You can share your Big Ocean quilt progress, and ask the group if you have any questions about colors, HSTs, or any other Big Ocean quilt questions. Check your emails for the link. It feels like I’ve been making HSTs for days and days, but with the foreground designed, all we have left to do is design and sew the background HSTs, then sew our blocks together next week! I...

Welcome to Week 4 of the Big Ocean Sew Along! This week we’ll be designing our quilt. Over the last week, I have finished sewing most of my foreground HSTs. There were some colors that I removed for now since I never really reached for those colors. If you edit any colors out, set them aside in case you decide to add them back in later.   Before you start designing, make piles of blocks with similar color combinations if you want to go with a "color theme" for each block. You might have blocks with variations of aqua and...