My Sewful Retirement · A Quilting Journey · 2026A Quilting Journey — blocks, tutorials and cozy sewing projects

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Quilt block tutorials and piecing techniques — flying geese, half-square triangles and classic blocks.

Embroidery for Beginners: Your First Stitches
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Embroidery for Beginners: Your First Stitches

The first stitches, the right hoop and the small habits that make embroidery relaxing.

Alcohol Ink Drawing: Vivid Colour with Soft Control
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Alcohol Ink Drawing: Vivid Colour with Soft Control

Vivid colour, quick results: how alcohol ink behaves and how to guide it.

Wet-on-Wet Watercolour: The Raw Painting Technique
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Wet-on-Wet Watercolour: The Raw Painting Technique

Painting into wet paper: soft edges, gradients and the timing that makes it work.

Delectable Mountains Quilt Block: Fabric and Layout
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Delectable Mountains Quilt Block: Fabric and Layout

A favorite scrap-friendly block built from half-square triangles, with layouts inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s Scrappy Mountain Majest

An HST Sampler Quilt Along: Nine Half-Square Blocks
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An HST Sampler Quilt Along: Nine Half-Square Blocks

A nine-block quilt-along built entirely on half-square triangles — Formal Garden, Morning Star and the lessons of squaring up accu

How to Make Flying Geese Quilt Blocks Step by Step
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How to Make Flying Geese Quilt Blocks Step by Step

Three ways to piece flying geese — specialty rulers, stitch-and-flip and the classic no-waste method — and how to pick the right o