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When I heard that my newest grandson’s name was Jacob, I had to make him a Jacob’s Ladder Quilt. I found the 12″ block pattern in a sampler book and used my 8′x8′ design wall to place the blocks. I purchased the alphabet and background fabric at one local quilt shop, the orange accent at another and the cuddly flannel backing at a third. It is machine quilted on a domestic machine using a wavy stitch. My mother made the Cabbage Patch doll. I did not realize until I looked at the photo how well it matched Jacob and his quilt. I was in a rehab facility when Jacob was born, but I recovered enough to get the quilt done for his first birthday.

Table Mat and Bowl
My quilting group the Piecemakers made a mystery table runner. It turned out to be a Jacob’s Ladder. The runner was too long for my table, so I made a mat and a runner. These are machine quilted in the ditch. The bowl is a clothesline wrapped with matching fabric. The quilt in the background is my first attempt at free motion machine quilting.

First Place Stars
I started this quilt in a class at a local quilt shop. The pattern is from Fons and Porter Love of Quilting. It was designed to use cut off corners from a larger quilt. However, I used yardage and thangles for piecing the 1″ finished squares. I had it completed in time for a quilt show in 2005. It received first place judged by popular vote.

May look like I love those half square triangles. I do not. I simply like the patterns they produce. I finally learned the most accurate way of piecing them is to oversize and trim to fit with a triangle ruler before they are pressed open. When I have a lot of the same colors, I like to use Kaye’s method of cutting diagonal strips. stitching them on both sides and cutting them by flip-flopping the ruler.

My mother was a quilter, but not a strip quilter. I learned strip quilting techniques on a local PBS station from Kaye and others.

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]]> kwb13Learn different techniques to create your very own landscape (and seascape) quilts and wallhangings with Kaye’s Strip Quilting Projects book 8.

12 projects including Porthole Sky Sampler, Autumn Leaves – an attic window quilt and a Stormy Sea Pillow.

Accuracy in cutting, sewing and pressing is stressed as well as working with the designs of the fabric and matching seamlines. Lots of finishing technqiues such as borders and bindings, batting, layering, machine quilting, hangings and figuring how wide your bindings should be.

Kaye’s Strip Quilting Projects Book 8 is now on sale, but hurry, today only, go here: http://www.kayewood.com/sale

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