Category Archives: Quilt Blocks

Chain-piecing a patchwork block

This month, I made two blocks for my charity quilt group ‘Refuge Circle’. I chose to chain-piece the squares for the blocks in both directions. I used this technique to piece the Miniature quilt entered into the Festival of Quilts this year: ‘A clearing in the beech woods’miniature quilt by Amanda Jane Ogden (Festival ofContinueContinue reading “Chain-piecing a patchwork block”

How to make an eight-inch eight-point star

This month, I made two eight-point stars to send in the post to this month’s Queen Bee of our ‘do.good Stitches’ Refuge Circle. Together we make quilts which will be given to charity. (For more about this, see the post here). Jules Miller, who is on Instagram as @jmiller4711 asked us to make two blocksContinueContinue reading “How to make an eight-inch eight-point star”