Category Archives: Quilting

Happy Birthday Kathryn

Cards, Quilting

January 4, 2026

Kathryn’s birthday is usually the first time I try out the date for the new year.

Kathryn picked this gnome fabric to cover the tri-fold screen that Dad made.

When I saw this gnome table topper pattern at the Saskatoon Quilt Show I knew I’d make it for her.

It was originally planned for Christmas but I decided on something else (the pillowcase) so it had to be for her birthday.

I made an error in judgement when I was trying to change the colours on the pattern so I had to find a way to recover from it. I’m happy with how it turned out.

No, I didn’t forget a card for her.

Rylan

Quilting

This was the December project that I worked on with Stacia and Deloise. They were both finishing up the book, while I still have three more projects to go.

Since it was December I purposely picked Christmas fabrics; the stars on the edges seemed to beg for Christmas fabrics. Things were going well and I had the centre finished (from scraps of Christmas fabrics) when I noticed that the measurements were off. If the centre wasn’t the right size those stars weren’t going to work on the border. I took the centre apart and was able to trim down the four-patches and put everything back together again and make it the right size.

The stars in the pattern were done with templates. After a couple of tries I realized I wasn’t ever going to get the stars right so I made my own paper-pieced pattern. It took a few tries to perfect the pattern but I finally got it right. I worried that I would run out of the fabrics I picked for the stars but, in the end, I had lots.

I used my new-to-me quilting method of free style curved lines in the centre and a cross hatch on the stars.

I debated giving this one away but with all the work I put into it I decided to keep it for myself.