Work In Progress Wednesday May 28

Working on this Project Linus quilt.  This will be sent to the folks at Fave Quilts for their Project Linus Charity Drive.  I am excited that I was contacted by the editor and will be one of their new contributors!!  I am working on the tutorial for making this quilt, and it will be up …

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Voting is Open at Amy’s Creative Side for Bloggers Quilt Festival

Voting is open at Amy's Creative Side and you can go vote for your favorites in all the categories.  There are lots of prizes to be won by those who have entered.  If you feel inclined to vote, click on the icon in the sidebar or on the links below.  Thank you Amy for hosting …

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Block of the Month May 2014

Seems like there is a theme developing.  The ladies at the LQS were hinting about this at the April meeting, maybe we are doing all blocks of earth elements?  I guess I should have paid better attention to that part of the program, LOL!  Anyway, this months block has a real curve ball thrown, as …

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Miniature Mariner’s Compass

It is the start of the online bloggers quilt show, so get ready to have some fun!  The Bloggers Quilt Festival is sponsored by Amy's Creative Side blog with giveaways.  There are eleven categories you can enter.  My first entry is this little Mariner's Compass quilt completed earlier this season.  The center is a compass …

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I’m in the AQS Show!!

I was just notified that the jury accepted my quilt for the American Quilter's Society Show in Charlotte, NC.  The show is July 30-Aug 2.  I am beyond excited!! Now, understand, I have no illusions.  My quilt is quilted with a pantograph, and those don't win.  Custom quilted ones actually win.  But, who cares?!!  It …

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Quilted Sewing Machine Cover

I have lots of sewing motif fabrics and wanted to do a quilted sewing machine cover for my main machine.  I wanted something that looked quilty.  So, I designed this one to integrate flying geese, a quilt square and lots of prints. Begin by constructing a panel 18-1/2 inches wide by 27 inches long.  I …

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Picnic Quilt Challenge

Sometimes I really do need my head examined.  I was reading some of my favorite blogs last week and came across this challenge - to make a picnic quilt.  OK, why not?  I have all these food prints left over from a challenge never completed a few years ago. Plus I have a couple of …

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Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 4 – stitching the edge to the back

The binding is almost done.  Part four will cover how to hand stitch the binding to the back.   The edge needs to be folded over to cover the raw edge of the quilt and stitched down.  There are two key things to this process.  First is to ensure the corners have perfect miters front …

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Block of the Month – April

I hope you are quilting along with us for the Block of the Month!  This is April's block chosen by the quilt store, called Lindy’s Plane. The pattern is on Quilt Blocks Galore at http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LindysPlaneBlock.html This one was a bit of a bear, with all the seams and little 2 inch squares. The kit had …

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Quilt Binding Tutorial Part 3 – joining the binding ends

Quilt along with me as I show you how to bind a quilt.  I use a lot of pictures so this full tutorial is in four parts.  If you missed the first two parts, you can see Part 1 Making Bias Binding and Part 2 Sewing Binding to the Quilt by clicking on those links. …

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