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Red Pineapple
This must be my week to try out new rulers. It all started with Cathy over at Quilting on Main Street. Cathy just finished a gorgeous quilt she calls Rendevous, which is a Pineapple Block quilt. She did hers all in French General reds, with glorious results. Go have a look at her quilt, so…
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Cool Rulers
I took advantage of some free time over the weekend to work on my Blogger Girls BOM blocks for February. The instructions for this block called for a couple of specialty rulers that I am excited about. These rulers were given to me by the inventor, Monique Dillard of Open Gate Quilts, I know that…
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Finish the Old, Start Something New?
I took my own advice and rummaged around a bit in the old stash cupboards this past weekend. Oh my, look what was hiding away in a plastic project box labeled "Pretty Maids". At first I had no clue what "Pretty Maids" meant. I have glanced at this box a hundred times over the past…
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Hill Country Baskets Blocks and a Recommendation
I have made some progress on my Hill Country Baskets blocks. Aren't they sweet? As I make them I am just tossing them up on the design wall, but when they are set into the quilt top properly, there will be a lattice separating the blocks. For this block, you need to make four half…
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Terrific, Awesome Tool for Machine Quilting
Through the suggestion of one of my extremely brilliant readers (Grandma Goose/no blog), I have discovered a new tool that has completely changed machine quilting for me. My sewing machine is a Bernina, and I have loved it for probably 15 years now. It is a great machine, and when I buy another one, it…
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Kiss Along With Me?
Here is my first block made from the Fig Tree pattern "Kiss Me". Isn't it sweet? I am making my quilt from various Fig Tree corally reds. The fabric above is from Patisserie, but most of the reds I will use are from last summer's Strawberry Fields collection. I found my fabrics late in the…
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Quilt Basting Spray
Do any of you use quilt basting spray? Helen of the Runquiltknitwrite blog posed the question in her post yesterday. She was considering getting some and wondering if it works on large quilting projects. I thought this question made a great topic for discussion. I love spray baste. It smells horrendous, but if you use…
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Hanging Out In the Studio
What a lovely day I had yesterday. I hung out in my studio a good part of the day, puttering with this and that. No deadlines, no pressures, just futzing with whatever my heart led me to do. Since I am working on my Fig Tree Dresden Plates, I decided I needed a thread catcher…
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What’s In My Sewing Basket?
Sara and I bought these fun little faux wicker baskets at Target over the weekend. They were only $5.99 and we thought they would be pretty cute along side our sewing machines, full of needful things. They did not come with the snazzy little cloth liners–I made those from a fat quarter when I got…
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TipTo End the Week
Such nice comments I got in response to my post yesterday. Those of us who have lost our moms really do have a sisterhood. I am sorry for all your losses. Time heals the wound, and our memories provide solace, but we never stop missing our loved ones. Remember me posting a photo of this…