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Our Scrap Dance for 2015 is done, and here is the last update with the finishes posted on Flickr. Time for a virtual trunk show. So many wonderful color combinations! Thank you to everyone that participated, posted progress pictures, and finishes!! Mary was one of the first to finish. Carol did this fantastic quilting on …
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I had a charity quilt to do for a friend, and she gave me the best instructions a quilter can get - "do whatever you want". Don'tcha love that! So, time to experiment again. I have been hearing a lot about the polyester threads for longarm quilting (and DSM use too), particularly for use where …
Happy Thanksgiving, hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and has some fun sewing time planned for this weekend. Are you ready to sew? I realized that last week I really didn't show you my progress, so I went back and edited that post to show you more. If you are still in element assembly, click …
Here we go! Since we decided to do the project as a Quilt Along, I am going to go a bit faster give you both units today. We'll assemble the blocks next week, so you will have the long weekend to quilt it and bind it, ready to go for December season decorating. First unit …
I used several suggestions from you, dear readers, to do this machine binding on the Quick Quilt. This time, I sewed the binding onto the back, then turned it to the front. I did use some pins to make the miters on the corners, and few to hold the binding down as it was being …
Well, the vote is in, and it was heavily in favor of a quilt along, almost 3-to-1 in actual numbers, so Quilt Along it is! Today I'll give you the first step, and at the bottom, will show the design. And there will be a warning for those who would rather not know what the …
Our local quilt club is doing some kid quilts for a local charity. I did two with Winnie the Pooh fabric using the directional print two ways. I figured that with a goal of 50, it wouldn't hurt to run up just one more quick quilt. It is so much easier with my stash to …
It is so much fun to play with EQ7, and I have a new design for a Christmas Table Topper. It will take just a bit to put together, and I thought we could have some fun. So, today I will give you the fabric requirements and cutting instructions for the project, as well as …
This offset diamond quilt is really resonating with me right now, I like both the design and the colors. It needed some borders to make it bigger, so I added both a print fabric border, and a scrappy one to use up more of the scrap chaos. Then I loaded it on the longarm to …
Going through the scrap pile to make order out of chaos, I found a good number of half square triangles I could use in a project. Remember this mess? There were a lot more half square triangles in that pile than I remembered ever having. I pulled them all out, and squared them all to …
