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All Drezzed Up by Diane Harris is a traditional Dresden Plate quilt with a twist. Vintage Dresden Plates and hand-dyed rickrack are featured. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

Everybunny by Diane Harris features easy fusible appliqué. Perfect from scraps! Pattern available from Quiltmaker. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission. Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Tilting Windmills by Diane Harris is an easy scrap quilt. Perfect for large scale prints. Pattern available from Quiltmaker. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

Abacus is a scrap quilt made from solids. A white background gives it a modern flair. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission. Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Abacus by Diane Harris of Stash Bandit looks right at home on a colorful playground. Pattern available in Oct/Nov '16 McCall's Quick Quilts. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission. Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Starring Role by Diane Harris of Stash Bandit is a traditional patchwork quilt with a twist. Pattern available from McCall's Quilting. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission. Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Blue Cheese Night by Diane Harris is a traditional patchwork star quilt. Pattern available from Quiltmaker. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission. Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Nested Nicks by Diane Harris is a small wall hanging with easy fusible appliqué. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker.

Don't you just love buttons and thimbles and spools of thread? What quilter wouldn't enjoy making this delightful modern design? Works great in any colors! Click the image to get the pattern from Quiltmaker in a special back issue of Quilts from Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks.

Click the image to be taken to the free pattern for Giddy-Up Go, designed and made by Diane Harris. Easy fusible applique and simple piecing for a sure winner!

This was the 2017 raffle quilt for Nebraska State Quilt Guild. It raised nearly $5000 for the non-profit organization. Made by Diane Harris, Keri Wheeler, Jan Wilson and Glenda Herz. Quilted by Kris Vierra. Click the image to read the Scarlet Sampler story. No pattern available.

Easy piecing in happy Christmas colors makes a bright holiday throw suitable for anyone on your list.

Reds and whites come together dynamically in this traditional beauty. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

Spinster is a visual feast for scrap lovers. Large Windmills are set on point for drama and movement. Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

Interesting backgrounds set the stage for super-sized Windmills separated by medium windmills for continuity. Fast and easy, great dorm quilt! Photo by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney. Used with permission.

Even the most basic Baby Windmill quilts are interesting and delightful! Christmas colors hold this scrappy wall quilt together.

This is one of the Baby Windmill quilts I'm currently working on. It has evolved since this and you may not recognize it when I'm finished.

Fowl Play is a three-dimensional patchwork scrap quilt. It was inspired by Andy Knowlton's Scrap Bin Geese at abrightcorner.com. It appeared in the July/August '18 issue of Modern Patchwork. Quilted by Julie Lechner.

Twinkling Bright is my first pictorial quilt made with Baby Windmills. Except for the bows on the presents, the entire quilt is made with just one patch, repeated over and over.

Color Coded is my original design which appeared in American Patchwork & Quilting, June 2019. I called it Rainbodacious and it was delightfully fun to make from my stash! Quilting: Julie Lechner.