I hope your summer is off to a great start and you have some fun vacations, picnics, and family gatherings planned. I am looking forward to a trip to the Oregon coast which is one of my favorite places to visit. I have many wonderful childhood memories of playing on the beach with my siblings. […]

It’s been a while since posting here. I have had good intentions, but life keeps getting in the way. Unfortunately, I have had to be out of my quilt design studio the last few weeks. I love what I do so I am itching to get back to work. Today I am excited to introduce […]

Anyone who knows my quilting knows I love Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP.) I often wish I was one of those wonderfully talented improvisational quilters but my love of precision always brings me back to FPP. I first learned about it years ago when I designed my first quilt. Being a musician by training I wanted […]

This Christmas of Covid-19 will be very different for many of us. Please indulge me as I dwell on some Christmas memories that are pleasant to me. I come from a very large family and Christmas morning was always magical for us. It was the one day we could expect new toys and gifts other […]

I am so excited to have finished my quilt, Color Tangles! As I worked on it there were many unexpected transformations from conception to completion. I am very happy with the end result. It started off as a quick project until I decided the border and binding needed some sparkle. As I said in my […]

When looking at antique quilts, you will sometimes find a part of the design that catches your eye because something is different from the rest of the quilt. Maybe it is a block placed “wrong” or a color that jolts because it doesn’t fit in to a grand color scheme. Or perhaps it is a […]

Since starting on my quilt design journey I have become very aware that creativity is fluid. I am constantly asking myself, “What if I tried this?” A design is never truly done. A quilt can be finished, but possibilities for something else to do with a design seem infinite. I had promised an update of […]

It was exciting to open my website and offer my newest quilt patterns last week, but I am not letting the dust settle here at Nancy Messuri Designs! I have started my next two quilt design projects, Missing Pieces and Fanfare and can’t wait to share them. For Missing Pieces, I purchased the most beautiful […]

I am happy to announce that I am releasing my first two quilt patterns, Hypnotica and Snow Geese while at the same time debuting my web-site. I feel much like when I sent my first-born off to college. This may sound a bit dramatic, but honestly I had no idea what it took to turn […]

Quilts are the stories of our lives. My grandmother gifted me and my husband a wedding quilt over 40 years ago. It was a top she had appliqued years previously and lovingly hand quilted for us. At the time I had no idea of the time and effort involved in making such a treasured item. […]