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Teeny Tiny Scraps
Quilting is easy. Blogging about it is not. I decided to create this blog mid way through this quilt project, so I don’t have a ton of photos. I thought to myself, “I’ll make diagrams to show directions, since I…
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The Year of the Giraffe!
The calendar says the Year of the Dog is coming. Here at Darcy Quilts, it is clearly the Year of the Giraffe! I love giraffes, and I’ve got four different giraffe prints, and somehow none of them go with another.…
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Binding: A Finished Goal and a Bonus Tutorial
It was the easiest of my quilting goals for the year, so I finished it off. All 5 finished quilts have been bound! They are now ready for loving homes and one goal is checked off. Now, it doesn’t seem…
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Flower Boxes Tutorial
I’m trying to clean out my fabric stash, and had this pretty flower fabric to use. I wanted to do something with larger pieces so the blooms wouldn’t be cut too small. I settled on a faux log cabin block.…
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A Little Story About Colors
A little story about colors. I like tone on tone fabrics. They are “easy” for me. Uncomplicated. When I started quilting I needed (not wanted, needed) every fabric to be matchy, matchy. I cried (seriously, tears in public) when colors…