Kite quilt

Ever wondered how to sew and trim half rectangle triangle (HRT) blocks? Well you've come to the right place! Let me show you how I like to make them.

This kite quilt block would be perfect for a picnic blanket, or maybe a child's quilt.

We hear spring is the best time to fly a kite! 🪁 Are you ready to soar? Take flight to the Jolly Jabber Blog and read about our exciting Vintage Kite Quilt Along with Lori Holt featuring her 6" Vintage Kit Foundation Paper! Kimberly is making her quilt using the Bee Cross Stitch White Alpine Background and Bee Vintage collections by Lori Holt for Riley Blake Designs. What are your quilty plans for your Vintage Kite Quilt? Read more details and get your FREE pattern on The Jolly Jabber Blog

It seems that the key to flying any kite is wind! We had big plans this weekend to reconnect with our old family traditions of Easter kite flying. Sounded like a good project for using up some fabric. I whipped this up in about an hour using some ugly fabric and a little scrap wood from Ross's play space. Even though our kites never flew more than 20 feet in the air without crashing we had fun trying. Running to make wind was quite a chore for this old lady! And it seems my skinny young sons…

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Here is a clever little block that looks great in a variety of scraps. Fast, easy, and fun to make! This 12 block is part of a free Block of the Month series. Collect them all! Each block has a free printable pattern available by PDF download #scrapdash

The Kite July 28, 1933-The Kite quilt block is the block featured by Nancy Cabot in her Chicago Tribune column today. Many of you probably recognize the Kite block as it is still very popular even today. This pattern has also been called Periwinkle, Arkansas Snowflake, and Humming Bird. Nancy Cabot wrote this interesting little tidbit about today's block, "About a century ago children in the southern and eastern states used to believe that the quilted kite would insure a happy sail to…

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So, what would happen if I sewed strip sets, cut them into rectangles, placed them right sides together, sewed two diagonal seams down the middle then cut on the diagonal? This is what happened: H…