Gail Lizette Quilts

Kaleidoscope hand pieced quilt
health, Kaleidoscope Quilt

New Year Plans

Happy holidays folks! I’ve been taking time away from social media lately, and it’s been wonderful to recharge, but I’m ready to get back to it… at least with keeping up this blog. Health in 2020 will be my main pursuit. Specifically I’m working on lowering blood sugar numbers, triglycerides, and CRP numbers. I’m also…
patchwork

Team Moongate

I had the pleasure of working with a brand new fabric line, designed by my friend Christina Cameli, for her to show at Quilt Market this year. It’s called Moongate from Maywood Studios. It should be available early 2020. The pattern I made is called Vista and was a very easy pattern to follow and…
Portland

Changes…

Things are very *in flux* emotionally for me right now. Unfortunately the main thing I’ve been feeling is anxiety. Or maybe not anxiety – I’m not that worried about anything – but that feeling of falling all the time in the pit of my stomach. Some people describe it as butterflies in the tummy –…
Heart Chakra Quilt, modern quilting, patchwork

Heart Chakra Quilt Finish

Oh – I am so thrilled to be sharing this quilt… finally! I don’t think I’ve ever had as many hang-ups as I’ve had with this quilt in one project. I’m sure it has everything to do with the meaning of the quilt. This quilt is part of a series of quilts I started about…
EPP, Heart Chakra Quilt, hexies, patchwork

Quilting My Heart Out

I’m having a lot of fun with puns for my Heart Chakra Quilt. All joking aside, this is going to be a fairly major project. Here’s the finished look of the top: This is NOT a perfect quilt or a quilt for a perfectionist. I purposefully left mistakes in because this quilt is turning out…
Heart Chakra Quilt, modern quilting, patchwork

Little Pieces of My Heart

If you follow my blog, you know I’ve been working on a Chakra Quilt series – to help myself work through some past emotional baggage. I’ve been currently working on the Heart Chakra Quilt, and it has taken much longer than anticipated only due to the improv nature of the quilt – and me not…