Displaying Fabric

Did you ever have a piece of fabric you loved so much that you just couldn’t use it in a project?  I have a piece of fabric like that from my grandmother’s stash.  It’s the very last piece of the fabric, just a little larger than a mini charm. So what do you do with…

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The Local Quilt Shop

The local quilt shop, or LQS as it’s known in the blogosphere, has been making a comeback in my area.  Even if I exclude the big box stores like Hobby Lobby and JoAnn’s there are no less than half a dozen quilting stores in my area.  This is really exciting for me, because I love…

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Yellow Spiral Quilt Finished

I’ve decided that the official title of the HST quilt I made using the yellow broadcloth and A Stitch in Color charm pack will be called the yellow spiral quilt.  And guess what?!  The top is done!  Of course, that’s no thanks to my husband who called when I was in the middle of the…

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More Quilting

I may have just finished a quilt top, but that doesn’t mean I’m planning on taking a break from my quilting.  I’ve already got another (allbeit much smaller) project in the works.  This one will actually be small enough that I’m hoping to attempt to machine quilt it myself, using my sewing machine.  This particular…

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Fabric Stash

As many of you know from my recent posts, I am working on a Crazy Quilt and a Dear Jane quilt to help use up some of the fabric scraps in my stash.  But just because I’m using up some of my fabric doesn’t mean that I don’t have a lot more to use. I’m…

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Dear Jane

Dear Jane, I made 4 more blocks from your quilt this week.  I did them for a finished size of 6-inches, so that I could make use of some strips I cut for a previous project and ended up not using.  And, since I was using strips, I decided that I had better pick out…

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Dear Jane

Dear Jane, I fell in love with your quilt the first time I saw it… of course, I would never make one.  I haven’t the patience to make 225 of those 4.5 inch squares.  But I do love your quilt.  Of course, I’ve always loved “scrappy” quilts made with remnants of past projects.  That’s probably…

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That Quilt Project

So, it has occurred to me that I haven’t bothered to tell you all how my quilt project is going, in quite a while.  Basically, as soon as I got my sewing machine back, I started having problems with it again. This is a big problem!  Partly, because I’d like to get the pieces for…

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