Autumn Jubilee Table Runners

Autumn Jubilee continues with table runners for your two block designs.  How you put this together is up to you, and the size you need for your table.   I'll give you several layouts, remember that each block finishes at 6 inches square, so measure your table to see how many you need to get the …

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Autumn Jubilee Block 2 and Mini Quilt

Are you ready for Block 2 in the Autumn Jubilee Quilt Along?  Our giveaway sponsor today is Connecting Threads!   You'll need to gather your orange fabrics for this one, along with more background scraps and just a bit of green. The second block for the quilt along is a pumpkin design.  The pumpkin block …

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Autumn Jubilee Quilt Along and Giveaway!

It is my favorite time of year, and this year I'll be doing a quilt along to help us get started on Autumn themed projects, leading up to my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.  The projects will be suitable for the entire fall season, but the best part is the quilt along that starts today!!  There will …

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Autumn Jubilee!

Finally, it is almost October and we can really get into the Autumn season, my favorite!  It was wonderfully cool last night, down to the low 50s, and I got out my sweater this morning to go to the Asheville Quilt Guild's Quilt Show.  I have been working on a special event for the past …

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Voting Opens for Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Voting starts today for the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  You can see all the participants and lovely inspirational quilts on Amy's Creative Side. Of course, I am hoping you will vote for Scrap Dance and Scrap Dance Tango! There are 12 categories in all for voting, and readers will get three votes per category.  Voting will …

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Decorating for Autumn

The weather should be cooling off a bit this coming week, at least that is the hope. It sure was still too warm last week when I met a friend for coffee. She reads my blog and said it was time to show some fall decorations. Of course, she is right (yes, you, CW!!). I …

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Bloggers Quilt Festival – Scrap Dance Tango

My second entry into the Bloggers Quilt Festival is in the Large Quilts category, and what better to enter than Scrap Dance Tango!  For new readers, this is my original design and was the mystery quilt for this year, and ran from January to June of this year. This was incredible fun to do, and …

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Bloggers Quilt Festival – Scrap Dance

This week is the entry week for the Bloggers Quilt Festival sponsored by Amy's Creative Side.  I decided to enter Scrap Dance this year in the Small Quilt Category.  It is just under the limit of total inches.  For those reading my blog for the first time, this is an original design that was my …

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Victorian Pastel Quilt

This was a beautiful quilt, and so pretty in the pastel pinks and purples.  I love this combination of colors.  The blocks are five sided log cabin style with at least a dozen different prints.  They were left for our local club's program chair at our sew in and no one claimed credit.   The blocks …

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How to Re-cover an Ironing Board

Ironing board covers do wear out regularly, and need replacing. If you have a standard board that most people have, just buying a new cover is easy. But, my board is a specialty shape that is no longer made. It is larger than the standard board, with an elongated end for ironing in the round, …

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