Heritage Days and a Quilt Show

Every year, my town has a festival on the town square.  There are lots of local organizations with food booths and local people selling handmade items.  I always enjoy taking a trip to the event just to look around.  You never know who you might get to see, and what cool things you might find…

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Steampunk Progress

I’ve been putting in a lot of time on my Steampunk themed crazy quilt, and I feel like I finally have something to show for it.  The quilt top is no where near complete, but it is coming along.  I even have an entire row sewn together. I know it doesn’t look like much but…

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Making Progress

I’m slowly but surely making progress on my latest crazy quilt.  These are usually quick sews for me because it’s simple not to match up corners.  However, thanks to some inspiration from Gloria McKinnon and her book Glorious Embellishing, I’m taking my time with this quilt top and adding some real crazy quilt detailing. In…

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The Original Crazy Quilt

As I was looking for photos of my first crazy quilt the other day, I realized that I never actually did a post sharing the finished quilt with you. I finished this quilt a year ago and sent it out to Cara of Cara Quilts to be quilted.  She did a fabulous job.  Each of…

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Giveaway Winner & New Crazy Quilt Project

First a big congratulations to Kayla!  She was the big winner in our Rafflecopter giveaway of Gloria McKinnon’s book Glorious Embellishments. If you didn’t win, but would still like a copy for yourself, order one online from Amazon or stop by your local fabric and crafting store to see if they have it in stock.…

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Crazy Quilting & a Giveaway!

I had the great honor to meet the wonderful and amazing Gloria McKinnon last week.  For those of you who have not heard of Gloria, she is an Australian native, world renowned quilter, owner of Anne’s Glory Box, and author of several amazing books. Gloria was in Evansville last week, at my favorite local fabric…

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Two New Sew Alongs

I have started two new sew along projects this week.  I’m so excited!  I’m hoping the projects will kick me into gear and get me sewing even with all the late sunshine outside. The first is the Impromptu Quilt Along at Monkey Do.  The quilt is a pattern by Rachel Griffith Design that will finish…

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Projects in Progress

Ever feel like all your projects are getting away from you?  That’s how I feel right now. I’m about halfway through making the Aeroplane Bag by Sew Sweetness.  Once it’s done, I plan to use for a couple things.  It will be a great bag for carrying my sewing machine if I ever get around…

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Officially a Hoarder

Last weekend, I decided that my sewing space was getting pretty messy.  I decided that the best thing to do was to do a little work and organize all of my fabrics again.  I’d done a pretty good keeping my fabrics organized by type and color, but when I used fabric, I was just shoving…

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