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Tie Offs Tutorial
Good morning. I got a lot of queries about tie offs yesterday when I posted about finishing up my Another Year of Schnibbles project. What are they? What did I mean, that I needed to do them? Here's the deal. When you do machine quilting, you end up with long threads at the beginning and…
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Around the ‘Hood, All Finished!
Sherri at A Quilting Life, and Sinta at Pink Pincushion are hosting Another Year of Schnibbles, and I have jumped on the bandwagon. Lord have mercy, I actually finished the January project, which is "Full House", a marvelous Schnibbles pattern by Carrie Nelson. Signed, sealed, delivered and actually quilted! I think this is my favorite…
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Barn Quilts for Your Home
When I was tearing through the Road to California quilt show in Ontario last week, my heart nearly stopped when I came upon something I have wanted my entire grown up life. A barn quilt. There was a booth,hosted by "Classic Metal Company", who had displayed heavy weight steel "barn quilt" blocks to use as…
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Birdie Stitches March Block & Info on the Red and White Quilt
Thanks for all your supportive comments regarding my experience taking Grandpa with me to the quilt show. I sure did think of a lot of things I might have said to that horrid woman who swiped his chair as he was preparing to sit in it–unfortunately I had a delayed reaction and stood stunned with…
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Where in the World Was I?
Palm Desert, California, is where I spent the past week. The photos I posted were all taken at the Living Desert Zoo and Botanical Garden. Thanks to all of you who played along and guessed where I was. Barbara L. was the first person to guess correctly. She and I have been in touch and…
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Cozy Mystery Recommendation
An author has come to my attention and I am just thrilled to share her books with you. Louise Penny is an award winning Canadian author who has a series of cozy mystery books about a storybook beautiful village called Three Pines. The first book in the series, "Still Life", introduces us to the residents…
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Birdie Stitches February Block
I am making good progress with my Birdie Stitches project, and have completed the second block. This is the block for February–Kissing Birds. (Sounds like "Kicking Bird" from Dances With Wolves). The stitching with fewer strands of thread (the flowers, stems and floating hearts) are definitely more forgiving than the thicker six strand stitching for…
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Tiny Town
Some construction progress here, on my little housing development. This Blueberry Crumbcake collection is so darn pretty. I love making my little color combinations for these blocks. These houses are being built for the Another Year of Schnibbles January project. The Schnibbles pattern for the month is called Full House (Carrie Nelson, designer). While reading…
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More Fabric Dreaminess
In my post yesterday, I neglected to link to Another Year of Schnibbles! Sherri at A Quilting Life: http://www.aquiltinglife.com/ and Sinta at Pink Pincushion: http://www.pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/ are the hosting this terrific sew along. ************************************************************************************************ Since I haven't been doing much sewing over the past few months, I haven't been doing much fabric purchasing either. I got…
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My Full House Schnibble
I think I have nearly every Schnibbles pattern that there is. But could I find any of them? Noooo, I could not. That is, not until a couple of weeks ago! Since my studio is not complete, all my materials are still packed up from the move last summer. In desperation, I tackled the garage…
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