Tutorial: Not Alone Star quilted placemats
I am slowly but surely filling up our house with quilts. But since our couch is getting quite full, I've recently started thinking about other ways to incorporate quilts into our house. I love the...
Patchwork Lone Star Quilt - About the Design
A Little Background... In the 1800s, Presbyterian missionaries introduced the art of quilt-making to the tribes on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation which is located on the Northern Plains of Montan...
Star Quilts on the Northern Plains of Montana: Part 2 - Star Quilters
Now that you know a brief history of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and the origin of Star quilts within the Indian culture (read about that here), I want to introduce you to a quilter from Popl...
Star Quilts on the Northern Plains of Montana: Part 1 - A Brief History
Spend about 5 seconds scrolling through my Instagram feed or quilt patterns and my love of the Star quilt is quickly made apparent. This is not a recent love, it goes way back. So let's start at t...
Homestead Star Quilt - About the Design
Quilt pattern #2 of Plains and Pine is here... The Homestead Star! About the Design Three sets of my great-grandparents were homesteaders on the Northern Plains of Montana. I think of them often ...
Big Sky Star Quilt - Tester Versions
Quilt pattern testers make the quilt world go round and I had especially good ones test the Big Sky Star pattern. Two Color Version Three of my testers made the 2 Color version and it's amazing to...