Gail Lizette Quilts - A Quilting Blog

A Patreon Creator

I’m doing something big and a little scary… I’m moving my quilt blog to Patreon, as a Patreon Creator, and I really hope you’ll join me! I feel a great desire to continue to create, to finish my Chakra Quilt Series, to show them in an art installation, and write a book about them. I…

Art Prints

Things have slowed quite a bit business-wise recently. Our screen printing company has certainly been affected by Covid. No more trade shows and concerts – and those were our biggest sales for custom T-shirts. Since we have more time on our hands, we have both been in Create-Mode. Gregg has been making art prints in…

My FPP Challenge

I have done a lot of EPP or English Paper Piecing for hand stitching unique shapes together in quilting, but now I’m switching it up and am going to try an FPP Challenge for myself. FPP stands for Foundation Paper Piecing. It is a very different technique where you stitch fabric to a paper template…

2021 Restart

Happy New Year friends! I’m happy 2020 is over and we get a 2021 restart, beginning with new leadership. The recent news has been a great source of information about how government actually works. I’ve been enjoying the civics lesson! My biggest hope is that those perpetuating lies will be held fully accountable. FULLY… as…

Chain Piecing

I’ve been doing a lot of chain piecing for my current quilt project. I’m sewing about four thousand 1 inch fabric squares together for the background element of my quilt design. There are a few different ways I could have accomplished this, and of course – I chose the most time consuming way to sew…

Making Progress

I’m finally making progress on my Third Eye Chakra Quilt project. I have had a rough couple of weeks due to some vertigo and its accompanying depression. Nothing like feeling like the world is trying to spin you off of it while you try to do anything. What I have done so far is the…

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