Magpie Girl 8 (7.5†x 12.5â€) The red polka dot trim needed to be ruffled and this girl wanted to wear it – lots of it – though some hidden from view under the muslin ruffles. The red polka dot fabric was only the beginning of her red collection. She has a tiny bell, clip, […]
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Magpie Girl 7 (7.5†x 12.5â€) I acquired the beautiful orange fabric as a door prize at a recent Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild meeting. It serves as a wonderful backdrop for this magpie girl who loves teal or odd blue/green items. Her dress has muslin and lace ruffles in which she nestles her collection of
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Magpie Girl 6 (7.5†x 12.5â€) Magpie Girl 6 is set on a background of prized hand-marbled fabric. I decided they would be better used in art quilts than sitting on my shelf. Her dress with has ruffles of white muslin, cotton eyelet lace and polyester lace. She collects items in green. Again, my camera
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Magpie Girl 5 (7.5†x 12.5â€) I’ve finished 4 more magpie girl quilts – these 4 are smaller than the first set I made. I like the smaller size but it has been a challenge to select baubles – the scale of some items I wanted to attach wasn’t quite right. This first magpie girl
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Art Quilts in Progress Ever the overachiever, I have 15 art quilts in progress. 11 will be magpie girl quilts. As I am striving to improve my doodle stitching, thought I would share what the backs of some of these quilts look like. Some are simple; some are messy. Some have me considering using the
Circles Baby Quilt (42†x 42â€) This quilt finally has a home with a new baby girl and her proud parents. Cream fabric with fabric from the Basic Grey Urban Couture. The circle were fused and then free motioned stitched. I washed and dried it a few times so the circles frayed which makes it
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portable baby changing/play mat (25†x 28â€) After reading about the Modern Quilt Guild Habitat Challenge, Krista gave us fat eighths and challenged the members of Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild to make anything with it. I struggled with the challenge – the prints are not my thing. After seeing the thick and thin quilt pattern
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Harding Icefield and glacier We celebrated our wedding anniversary with an overnight in Seward, AK and 9 hour wildlife/fjord/glacier tour. The weather was ideal, especially after almost 2 weeks of rain. We traveled 120 miles during the tour through the Kenai Fjords National Park. Orca Whales Orca Whales We saw orca whiles, humpback whales and
Fabric book cover (8†x 8â€) Not feeling well lasted a week. I’m not very good at being sick and resting to get better. I’m okay with staying home to not spread germs, but I work from home so I usually keep working when I’m sick. Last week I kept telling myself: it was just
Cincinnati Community Quilt top I’m not feeling well; no new projects today. Instead how about a project from a few year ago. When I moved to Cincinnati in 2005, my friend Denise encouraged me to join the quilt guild there. I showed up to my first meeting feeling awkward and out of place, but a
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