12 Quilts

Hopefully you are enjoying this series helping you learn how to draft and make your own Amish Star block in Christmas fabrics. I've sure had fun putting it together. Grab a cuppa and come watch my process for picking complimentary fabrics to go in this block... Around the Block with Judy Hopkins: 200 Rotary-Cut Blocks in 6 Sizes

Hi friends! I've got the next video loaded and captioned! Enjoy the second part of the Christmas Amish Star quilt block. In this video, we will learn a little more about how this block goes together and determine which colors we want to try in each segment. Grab a cuppa and enjoy... Around the Block with Judy Hopkins: 200 Rotary-Cut Blocks in 6 Sizes

It's been long time coming but at last I'm ready to relaunch 12Quilts.com! I'm restarting my blog **waves to all here in blogville** and working hard to get more quilting content into your hands through several avenues available! That said, check out my brand new YouTube channel, appropriately named 12Quilts! Hope to see more of you soon! Around the Block with Judy Hopkins: 200 Rotary-Cut Blocks in 6 Sizes

11 months, 12 quilts, 1 quilter. Such a premise. Such a failure. And yet. Today is Winston Churchill Day. I know folks have issues with him; political folks; WWII history folks. I don't know where I stand on any of that, but I like that he's very quotable. So this is where I am today. Going from failure to failure until at last I've arrived at success, however long it takes. It was audacious to set a big quilting goal for myself. And in the trying, perhaps fail. But I look back at this attempt with pride, not defeat. Because while I didn't make my stated goal, I certainly made more progress than I ever would had I not set it...and quite bluntly, I made more progress on learning to quilt than I have in the previous 15 or so years I've been doing it. Yes, I still have some bindings to add. Yup, I still have some labels to create. But by the end of 11 months, I managed to quilt 6 quilts. Unless you've ever wrestled with a big quilt and won, you...

It's been so great having this goal of 12 quilts this year. Even if I don't make that number, I have thoroughly enjoyed getting back to doing something I love. It gives me a little oasis of calm in my otherwise chaotic life. I have some pictures to add of some recent work I've done but won't get to it today. I got a Kings Cross quilt quilted at the beginning of this month but my phone died so I didn't get a picture of it on the machine. Earlier in August, I also quilted up the brown and blue nine-patch pictured in the previous post. Both of those quilts, along with the Pioneer Braid, now reside on my stair railing awaiting binding and labels. But I will share a couple of (dark) pictures of what I'm working up currently. Sorry about the lighting, I sew at night and take pictures at night, and my room is sort of cave-like which is terrible for doing things like deciding on colors, taking pictures, reading. You know. I'll be taking one of these two in to quil...

...but I've lost a bunch of pictures. I'm sorry for the missing pics and I'll get it fixed as soon as I can.