About Jill

Hi! I’m Jill Blair. <- That’s still NOT how you’re supposed to introduce yourself in writing… !

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I’ve gone through four or five of my nine lives at this point I think. My current life is still heavily about being mom to one wonderful-if-I-do-say-so-myself young man now in college being a math nerd, loving my supportive and loving bicycling, brainy husband (who thought of  “materiella” for me), and making quilts, thinking about quilts, quilting, designing patterns hoping they will be useful to other addicts, I mean, quilters, and on and on. I mean, at least if I make a quilt that *no one else* in the world likes – it’s still a handmade piece of art or a nice warm blankie! and since we live where temperatures get below zero (both fahrenheit and celsius), that is not a small thing. I intend to post quilt info, tutorials as needed, new diagrams for patterns as needed and all that quilty stuff.
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5 thoughts on “About Jill”

  1. Hi Jill, I just bought your trip around the panel kit from Grubers quilt store in Saint cloud. I love the fabrics that you used. I am looking to make that into a king size quilt and would love to know where I could find more of the red poppy (fabric D) and the light pink grunge that you used. Grubers was all out of it and I can’t tell the number grunge or name of the red flower fabric.
    Thanks so much!

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    1. Hi Deb, thank you for the compliment!! The grunge is “Ballet Slipper” and we did get more in at the shop to cut more kits. I’ll check when I go in again. We could see if we could order more of the poppy, otherwise it was from Timeless Treasures Digital Floral Study line and was called “Delicate Flower Blooms Cream Fabric”. I hope this helps!

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  2. Hi Jill,

    I’m making the Medora pattern as part of the MQ Pattern Challenge that will be part of The Minnesota Quilt Show this June. It will be fun to see all the different quilts!

    There is one correction that is needed for the Lauren. You missed the instruction to stitch the Color B 4″ wedges to the Background 4″ wedges.

    I also found the directions for squaring up confusing when you referred to the to of the ruler and the right of the ruler. But I made it through!

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    1. Hi Brenda! I don’t know what you mean by “the Lauren” which I’m thinking is a typo. Is that missing from Page 5? that’s what it’s looking like to me ( facepalm) – I’m finding it strange that a couple of errors happened there and I’m so sorry – I guess my testers muddles through too?

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  3. Oops – Lauren was supposed to be Medora! That is quite the typo!

    I’m realizing now that page 12 has a picture of the ruler when squaring up so that makes more sense. I didn’t have the ruler so squared up using your tip of trimming a bit from each side. That worked!

    Quilters are good at muddling through!

    Brenda

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