Around the World Blog Tour

You know, for me it is a rare day to be the popular girl! Never happened to me in school, but I did get ‘tagged’ by two other bloggers at once for the Around the World Blog Tour. It is a blog hop, where a blogger tags you to share about your blog, then you …

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Block of the Month – August 2014

This month's block is Variable Star from Quilt Blocks Galore.The quilt shop chose yellow for the main color this month. You will need the following cuts using my method of chain piecing instead of strippy piecing. It really helps when you are doing these blocks to check the supply requirements at the end before you …

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Giveaway Winner

The random number generator has spun its wheels and picked a winner for the giveaway. Congratulations to Vickie!! Vickie said "Thanks so much for sharing all of this plus a bonus a chance to win the bag of goodies. LOVE the green color!" I'll be sending you an email to get your prize to you.  …

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More AQS Show Pearls and a Giveaway!!

One of the nicest, most genuine people I met at the AQS Charlotte show was Jamie Wallen.  His youtube videos literally saved my sanity when I was having trouble with my longarm tensions.  Warm, caring, and wonderfully encouraging, Jamie shares everything he can about free motion quilting, cramming an 8-hour course into 3 hours. His …

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More Sewing Goodies

Now that I have the Sewing Kit finished, I had fabric left. Those scraps were begging to be used for more matching accessories, so I made a few more quickie projects. The needle book is made like a tiny quilt, folded over, with a wool felt 'page' to keep the needles on. It has a …

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How to Use Fussy Cut Templates

I was excited to be asked to review the Fussy Cut Templates from Prym for Fave Quilts.  They did not pay me for this review, but I did get to keep the templates.  They sent me several sets to try and I am a believer!  I have done a few fussy cut quilts, most recently …

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AQS Show Charlotte

I am back from a wonderful four days of classes and quilts at the AQS Show in Charlotte.  Oh, wow!!  The classes were wonderful, and there were about 500 quilts to see, between the 182 judged quilts, Winner's Gallery, AQS Authors exhibit, Quilted in Honor exhibit, Egyptian Applique exhibit, the SAQA Masters Exhibit and Modern …

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Sewing Kit, part 2

Getting back to this kit, I figured out what I needed to do.  I had to pin the base all around to one layer of Timtex to hold it tight while I added the pockets, thread holding elastic, and scissor holding elastic with clear vinyl point guards.  I sewed through only one layer of Timtex …

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Sewing Kit

Looking over the supply list for a class I am going to take, it had a lot of little things that could easily get lost in a big bag.  Things like marking pencils, seam measure, seam ripper, thimble, thread snips, and well you get the idea.   I remembered I had a pattern for a sewing …

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Block of the Month – July 2014

This month's block is Housewife found on Quilt Blocks Galore.  Click HERE for the link to the pattern.  I liked the purples chosen by the quilt store.  I have a secret wish that the whole quilt was in purple, yellow and green.  But, it will be scrappy.  This one has a mistake in the online …

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