Works in Progress

My weekly update on project progress. Finishes My Zen Chic quilt came back from Designs by Laura Jo on Monday night, so I got busy Tuesday evening, trimming the quilt top down and adding the binding.  I still can’t believe what a good job she did on the quilting.  It looks great. Now if I…

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His and Hers Pillow Cover

I recently agreed to do a basic quilting tutorial for a couple of the ladies who participate in Virtual Craft Nite.  The tutorial was a simple 18-inch pillow cover using 9-patch blocks.  I’m super proud of the girls finished projects, though they may hate me, since the piecing process is a lot more tedious than…

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Works in Progress

My weekly update on project progress. Finishes I finished my Romance themed (read Valentine’s Day) crazy quilt. I made a matching Valentine’s Day pillow cover. And I made up a pillow cover to match the His and Her’s Quilt. You’ll see a blog post about the pillow top next week. I also finished one more…

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Quilts Quilts Quilts

My husband recently brought to my attention that I may have a problem with quilts.  They are everywhere in my living room.  And I mean everywhere.  The only thing I haven’t done is to lay one on the floor like a rug. My husband thinks I may have a problem. Any ideas on how to…

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Valentine Pillow Cover

I seem to be making a habit of making a pillow cover to match each of my most recent quilts.  So, I now present you with a simple pillow cover that I made to go with my Valentine’s Day Quilt. For this particular pillow cover, I chose to use one of the sampler style motifs…

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Works In Progress

I’m trying to finish projects as I start them instead of having lots of projects going at the same time.  Being focused on only one or two projects at a time has been really good for me.  I feel like I’m accomplishing much more than I would otherwise.  It’s so easy when I have multiple…

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Romance as a Quilt

Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been piecing yet another crazy quilt.  That in itself isn’t surprising.  What’s surprising is that it’s a Valentine’s Day quilt.  That means lots of pink.  Pink isn’t normally my color, but I ran across a great vintage-inspired Valentine’s Day print fabric at JoAnn’s, and when I did, I knew…

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#thegreatfabricdestash

A couple weeks ago, someone on instagram got the brilliant idea to start a hashtag for a big fabric destashing project.  I think it was @twomoreseconds, as she has a blog post about it. But, what started out as a small destash of fabrics exploded. Almost all of the crafty people I followed on instagram…

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Designing a Quilt

I picked up some amazing fabrics last weekend, knowing that I wanted to make a quilt with them, but having no idea what I wanted that quilt to look like.  Why do I do this to myself? Because I had a gift card for the store and everything was 15% off, that’s why.  The fabric…

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