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Summer items are beginning to hit the local stores, and it is now time to begin collecting up some fun things for this year's Safelight Project. The director at Safelight is hoping that we can make more of the bags for the residents of the domestic violence shelter. The 45 bags that we donated last …
Continue reading The Safelight Project 2018 and prize announcement!
I am excited to announce my latest design for Moda Bake Shop, that published on the Moda Bake Shop site late yesterday afternoon. This is the third design that the Moda Bake Shop has accepted. The fabrics are called Fern Hill designed by Jan Patek. The colors are similar values making a low volume quilt. …
I did another Scrap Dance Quickstep quilt, this time using just nine strips. Sewing long strips is a lot easier than individual squares. These strips are left over from the Moda Bake Shop recipe I did for a Pin Woven Tote (link on sidebar). I sewed sets of three strips. Then I cross cut them …
Announcing my new purse pattern! Since I seem to be following a dance theme with the Scrap Dance Mystery quilts, the title for this purse continues in that light. The Charleston Bag works as a shoulder bag or a handbag with swinging beads that evoke the image of a flapper dancer in the 1920s. I …
Continue reading Introducing “The Charleston”! A Quilted Beaded Handbag
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