too hot blueberry picking yummy fun with friends hiking in the words a ski slope in summer an aquarium s’mores long plane rides, road trips, visiting family and friends laughter wonderful to leave home and forget work already looking forward to the next vacation when we’ll visit more family and not be hot (it’ll be […]
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Flea Market Fancy quilt top (52†x 52â€) Long ago I received a Denyse Schmidt scrap bag for a birthday gift. Inside were the most amazing pieces of fabric including bits of the original Flea Market Fancy fabrics. I used them in some of my most treasured projects. I longed to have more, so when
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She was ready to begin (9†x 12â€) Scraps of fused fabric and a background quilted months earlier came together to make a cute little quilt of an artist and her blank canvas. I used tiny bias tape for the binding – I don’t think I’ll use it again. I love the frayed mess of
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She loved today (5.25†x 8â€) I had a few leftover cats from the challenge art quilts. So I made some mini quilts for my guild’s upcoming small quilt auction. She couldn’t imagine life without her cats (5.25†x 8â€)
Potholders (8†x 8â€) My quilt guild posed a beautiful fabric challenge in which we were to find a precious fabric in our stash that we had not yet cut into and cut a fat quarter. We put our pretty fabric in a brown bag and swapped. I received the orange batik above. Joan, the
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Scrap Quilt Top (53†x 57â€) and Dexter Kitty After completing the Husband’s Challenge quilt, I was inspired to try another scrap quilt. I avoided blacks as I dug through my scrap baskets and pulled out an overstuffed gallon bag of favorites. Instead of obscuring the fabric by cutting the pieces into small strips, I
I love getting magazines with these words on the shipping label sheet. Pick up the Summer 2012 issue of Art Quilting Studio, my quilt is on page 130. I’m thrilled that they showed the back of the quilt too.
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A local fabric store has a fat quarter sale on Jan 1st. Each fat quarter is $1 but you have to buy a minimum of 50. I mentioned the sale to my husband and commented that I wasn’t sure I would find 50 fat quarters I wanted. He suggested we go anyway and he could
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Here are 5 of the newest quilt tops finished: 54†x 54†constructed of 2 Half Moon Modern charm packs and 1.5 white charm squares. 54†x 54†constructed of 2 Vintage Modern charm packs, 1 Wonderland charm pack I’ve had for years and a handful of extra white squares 57†x 47.5†constructed of
I have been sewing like a mad woman. I have completed 6 more quilt tops (8 total this month), 7 quilt backs and 8 binding strips. I’ll be busy quilting all of these for the next few month. Sewing quilt tops has been an ideal activity to relieve stress and it’s brought me several tops
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