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Fudging
Ok, man alive, did I get comments from you all yesterday! Didn't realize I had struck such a nerve. So, here is the untrimmed block I made with the wonky, not so perfect flying goose unit. As you see, the block did come out a bit wonky. I believe though, with proper trimming, this block…
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Fess Up.
You all know I was making flying geese units last week. Most of them turned out fine and dandy like the one pictured at the top of my photo. A few turned out not so great, like the one below. See how the fabric doesn't match up at the top? Obviously, both units need trimming…
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You Simply MUST Trim
I know I have harped on this subject in the past, but it is so important, I feel I must get up on the soap box again. This past weekend I made 40 quarter square triangle blocks for one of the borders for my Summer Wind Moor is Moor quilt. A quarter square triangle block…
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Picketty Sticks
You may have noticed that I am into bright and cheery fabrics these days. I am feeling very upbeat lately with all my free time to sew, and find that happy colors suit my mood perfectly. I cannot believe I actually own the fabric group pictured above, but there it was, smiling at me from…
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Pinwheels
I have stated unequivocally that I will not make pinwheels ever again in my life. I once made a queen size quilt that was all pinwheels–80 of them, and that pretty much put me off them. My problem was that the center point of each pinwheel block, where all the fabrics come together, was…
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It Is All About the Contrast
Remember this pattern? I started to make it back in April with a collection called In The Pink 1 designed by Buggy Barn for Henry Glass. My colors are all pinks and browns. I set the project aside because I was not happy with the lack of contrast in my blocks. I believe the point of this block…
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One More Word About Pins.
No I am not making myself a little prison uniform, even though some of you may think that is where I belong due to my bad habit of sewing over pins. I have been making strip sets galore. These strip sets are the reason I set this quilting project aside a year ago. I had…
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My Least Favorite Way To Make Half Square Triangles
I don’t know what possessed me. I was at my Wednesday UFO group at Eddie’s Quilting Bee and had planned to work on my Posh Basket blocks. Somehow I had left my half square triangles at home and had to start over and make some more. The book I am using for the block pattern,…
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Flying Geese, Another Way
On April 18, 2007, I posted a tutorial on my favorite way to make Flying Geese Units. Any time you are making flying geese units, you can use this technique, which isn’t always given in the block assembly instructions. Check it out, by clicking on the link. You make four perfect flying geese in no…
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Precison Trimmer
This is a tool known as the Precision Trimmer. If you do not have one, run out to your local quilt shop, or log on to your favorite Internet quilt supplier and get one right away. Do not delay, do not pass Go, just get one. I do not know how I existed without this…