April Themed Projects from Around the Web

April Showers bring May Flowers, at least I think that’s how the poem goes. And I’ve seen a lot of great April Showers themed projects on the web over the last few days.  Here are a few of my favorites. I found these great Mug Rugs by Quilting and Other Craft Therapy via Threadbias. I…

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Quilting for Beginners

I’m excited to share with you a great resource for beginning quilters that I wish I had known about when I first started my quilting journey.  It’s Quilty!  Quilty is a great resource because it really does start right from the beginning.  Everything that you didn’t learn in home ec class.  That’s right.  I know…

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Sewing Circles

After telling everyone on the blog on Friday to stop being afraid to try things and just do them, I figured I should take my own advice.  So I pulled a quilt from my stack to send off to the quilter and decided to give it a go myself. This quilt was a challenge on…

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Modern Crazy Quilt

I’ve been working on another crazy quilt for the last few weeks, and am super excited to say that the top is done.   After the first one I said I’d never make another because it takes so long to put together, and can sometimes be really frustrating.  However, when my box of scraps got full…

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Finished School Days Quilt

You may remember this quilt from a few months ago.  It started with a charm pack of School Days by American Jane for Moda, and some yardage from my stash.  I’m happy to say, that it’s now completed, after a LOT of hard work by my wonderful mother-in-law, who hand quilted the entire thing for…

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Frog Quilt

My fried Laci is having a baby, so I wanted to do something special for her.  She’s doing her baby boy’s room in frogs, so I decided I would make her a frog quilt for him.  I went through several iterations of the design before I settled on the final one, which has a big…

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Half Moon Colorist Quilt

I decided a while ago that I wanted to tackle a quilt with curves, but hadn’t been brave enough to do it.  I’m pretty decent a sewing a straight line by now, but how on earth you get curves to work still seemed a little beyond me.  Then I started sewing a few clothes.  I…

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Back in the Groove

It started with a squeak and with every stitch a new one.  My machine is really due for a service. It’s to be expected with the large number of hours I’ve put on it recently. But the squeak wasn’t the only problem. The first major issue was when my bobbin started pulling multiple threads.  That…

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Colorist

What with all the binding and dressmaking I’ve been doing lately, I felt like it was time to start piecing another quilt.  I’ve been looking forward to making The Colorist for a while now.  It’s a Lizzy House pattern, and will be my first quilt with curves. To save a little on fabric, I’ve decided…

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