I am so happy to share this finished quilt today! This one took me 10 years to make, start to finish.


It all started with a few lovely things that were given to me! First, the fabrics are from Morning Walk by Leah Duncan which she designed for Art Gallery when I was designing there too. And secondly, the ruler I used to make this quilt. I met Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts at one of the first quilt markets I attended and she gave me one of her Sidekick rulers. I picked up one of her quilt patterns that utilizes it, Night Sky.


I'll be honest, this type of piecing is not typically my cup of tea! I also don't make a lot of quilts that require templates for cutting. The process of making this quilt top reminded me a lot of making my Tula Pink Kaleidoscope Quilt. No part of it was particularly difficult, it just required me to be a bit more organized with all the pieces and do more precise piecing.


This quilt languished in my works in progress storage for many years without being worked on. Finally in 2025 I decided I needed to either finish it or pass it on! I still loved the fabrics so I pushed forward and got the top put together. I ended up arranging the blocks using equilateral triangles of the background fabric rather than with sashing like the pattern instructs. I really wanted to finish this quilt and I knew this layout would help me get over the finish line.


Ta-da! I need to work on a better lit spot to do flat shots, but for now this will have to do. I am so happy that it is done! And my husband claimed it right away so it's staying here! It's been our sunroom quilt all summer.


The quilting was done by Katie of Autumn Moon Quilting. The design is called Moon Phases.


For the binding I decided to use the background color from the top! And I remembered to add one of my labels.


I am so glad I held onto this backing for all these years. I picked it up from a store closing. It's a print from Morning Walk too.


Pattern: Night Sky by Jaybird Quilts
Fabrics: Morning Walk by Leah Duncan, Sweet Mint Pure Solids by Art Gallery Fabrics.
Notions: Sidekick Ruler

Happy Quilting!

Finished: Waypoint Quilt

Hi there! It's been quiet in this space lately, but today I'm back to start sharing a backlog of finished quilts with you all! I think this is the first of 5? I was able to get a bunch photographed recently so I can finally share them!


Photo © 2015 Lauren Hunt for Lucky Spool Media.


We're starting with what I think is the last quilt top that I made in the process of writing my book, Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle. For each quilt pattern in the book I made either an alternate block or entire quilt top. This quilt is the alternate I made for the Waypoint Quilt. Above you can see the version that was photographed for the book!


This one was simply an alternative color way! To be honest, I don't remember what the jumping off point was for this color palette, it's been so long ago. I do remember I was excited to use that Momo scissor fabric that I had long stashed.



When I am trying to finish up old works in progress, I try to make the finishing steps as easy as possible for myself. This quilt top lingered for so long, I was not about to do anything fancy for the quilting. At this point my eye was on the prize! So I chose to do my signature wavy quilting. I did however use a fun thread color, a light aqua! This quilting style is relaxing for me to do and it's forgiving too. Win-win! You can find a tutorial for how I do it here: How to Quilt Wavy Lines with a Walking Foot


With the backing and binding, again simplicity was key. I chose one fabric to use as both the back and the binding. One of my prints from curiosities happened to perfectly match the front, yay!


This quilt ended up going home with my younger brother for his condo!


It's a bit hard for me to believe that my book came out OVER 10 years ago, wow. So much has changed in 10 years! I know I still have a few quilt blocks kicking around from the process, but I am glad to have finally finished up all the quilt tops!

Happy Quilting!

What I've Been Working On

Ever since our move in mid-November, I've been working on the most random projects! The lined drawstring bag sew along started right after we got here, so I haven't really shared what I'm working on since November! So this is going to be a bit of a catch-up post of things I've sewn and crafted since then, starting with some holiday projects.

It should come as no surprise that I love table linens. I have a couple drawers full of thrifted tablecloths, napkins and placemats. My stash is the most lacking in placemats, most of the ones we use are handmade. This year I decided to sacrifice a vintage Christmas tablecloth that was too small and turn it into placemats! I made six placemats and still have plenty leftover!


My daughter has discovered the joys of perler beads. She's a bit young to do them on her own, but she loves telling us what to make her! We started by making a bunch of colorful ornaments but have also made cats, bows, hello kitty and friends, etc. It's been fun to revisit this craft.


I didn't hang up my collection of paper snowflakes this season, but I did make some new tiny ones! These are made with 2.5" squares of paper.


I usually make a few new holiday lined drawstring bags outside of the ones I make for the sew along tutorials. This one used a scrap of postage stamp fabric that my friend Jacey gave me many years ago. I love how it turned out!! I was able to use thrifted fabrics for the accent and lining too, which is nice! This is the everything size from my pattern.


I made my daughter another Christmas quilt! Looking back I don't think I ever shared the one I made her the year before, oops! I'll be sure to share them both in full soon. This one is bigger and just simple patchwork. I even managed to finish it before Christmas!


Speaking of quilts, I bound three that I had quilted by Katie this past fall!


We were long overdue for a new potholder, as our old one was looking a bit rough. I actually ended up repairing the old one too, I'll share more about both of these soon!


Another peek at a project that will show up in full here in the coming weeks, a zipper pouch made with old fabric samples!


The last little tease of an upcoming post. I remade the "SEW" pincushion I made for a publication long ago. I'm writing a tutorial for it!



This month I finally made myself one of these stuffed geese with the Silly Goose pattern by Woolly Petals*. What a hilarious and fun project this was. I love how it turned out, I think it's adorable! I used about half of a vintage pillowcase and the orange print was pulled from my scrap bin. Thankfully I had some safety eyes on hand to finish it off. I will definitely be making more of these!!



I have plans to change out some of the light fixtures in our new house, but I've only just started the process of sourcing new fixtures so I know it will be a while before we actually make the changes. So for now I decided to dress up the light in the dining room a little. I painted it green (it really needs another coat!) and made these little shades for it out of vellum. It had no shades previously, so the light was pretty harsh. These simple pleated shades help diffuse the light and make it a lot more pleasant to have the light on! It took some experimenting to get the shades right, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I think it kind of looks like flowers now! To head off any concerns: the bulbs are LED so they don't get hot and the shades don't touch the bulbs.


Lastly, I started a new junk journal. This one is really simple, it's a "stamp" collection!! I saw someone doing this on instagram (here) and the idea really spoke to me. I already had the punch in my stash, so it was an easy choice! I love real stamps, so it feels like it was meant to be. And it's very low effort, which is what I need right now. It's been fun!

Okay, that's a pretty good recap for now! I hope to be back soon to share a little tour of my sewing space.

Happy Making!

*Note: Any links marked with an asterisk in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click through and buy something, I make a small commission, at no extra cost to you.

Quilted Tea Towel Pillow Cover

I have another recent pillow project to share! I thrifted this vintage tea towel so long ago that I can't even find a photo of it! Honestly, it could have been 15 years ago for all I remember. I know I've had it for a really long time. Last month I decided it was finally time to make it into something! This idea was fueled by thrifting a long rectangular pillow form. I realized that this tea towel was pretty much the perfect size for a cover.



I knew I wanted to use an invisible zipper for this cover so that it would be a double sided pillow. Lucky me, I had this geometric canvas print by Ellen Luckett Baker in my stash that coordinated nicely in color and design to the tea towel. I started this project by quilting both pieces. After cutting them both to size, I used my serger to finish all the edges.



Ta-da! The finished result! I love how it turned out. Such a simple project, but so satisfying. The tea towel is so funky, I am very glad that it is out of storage and living its life as a pillow cover!


And the other size is fun too. I started working on this pillow after our local JoAnn fabrics closed and honestly had a hard time sourcing an invisible zipper that matched and was long enough. My Mom brought me one from her stash, but while she was visiting we went to Ecoworks, our local craft thrift store and they had the perfect match! It's the same color blue as the back of the pillow and the length was just right. It's like it was meant to be. My application of it could have been better, but that's okay. I haven't installed that many invisible zippers in pillows, so I just need some more practice!

If we're keeping track, this project used a thrifted pillow insert, thrifted tea towel, and thrifted zipper! :)

Happy Sewing!

Vintage Striped Sheet Quilt

Happy Thursday! I have a finished quilt to share today. This quilt has been in progress most of the Summer, and I'm excited that it's finished!


Whenever I rip up a vintage sheet for fat quarter bundles, there are always leftovers. Either a long strip that wasn't wide enough or pieces that are just under fat quarter size. After I made striped sheet bundles this Spring, I decided to cut into all those leftovers instead of folding them into my stash.

There are still some striped sheet bundles available, find them here: Vintage Sheet Fat Quarter Bundles



My inspiration for this quilt was strip quilts. Quilts like Scrap Happy by Amy Smart, and this quilt by Steffi Troy. Obviously these kinds of quilts used strips pieces together, but I wanted to play with achieving a similar look with a striped fabric. I used the block from the free Tessellation Quilt Pattern I shared when Geometric Bliss came out. These blocks are smaller, I cut the stripe squares 4.5" and the background squares 2.5"! I cut all the stripes on the bias so that I would get the look I wanted.


I paired the stripe sheets with a plain white sheet that I also thrifted! I've picked up a few recently but this is the first one I actually cut into. I like that all the fabrics in this quilt are reclaimed!


All the stripes! I love how this turned out. I kept the palette strictly to the sheets I used when I made the bundles, but now I'm tempted to make another all stripes quilt with my whole collection. They're so fun all together.


Quilting is simple as usual, I followed all the vertical and horizontal lines with 1/4" quilting on each side.


For the back I used this incredible striped sheet! It feels very 80s to me, especially the colors.


I honestly struggled with choosing a binding for this quilt. I knew I wanted it to be a stripe of course, but finding something that went with the very specific color palette on the back as well as the front was tough. In the end I made a scrappy binding from sheets I used in the top.


Always a win when I remember to use one of my tags!



Dusty cat (and baby girl) really likes this quilt! She was trying to lounge when I was trying to take photos. Such a silly goose!


Vintage Striped Sheet Quilt
Pattern: Modified Tessellation Quilt Pattern (free)
Fabrics: Vintage Reclaimed Bedsheets

Happy Quilting!