Quilt Ideas

I recently picked up small bits of yardage from Amy Butler’s Alchemy line and Parson Grey’s Curious Nature line.  For those of you who don’t know, they are married, so I thought it would be fun to do something to mesh their lines together. I chose to go with warm shades from the Amy Butler…

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String Theory Quilt Top

I made up another fun and simple quilt top over the weekend.  This one used some of the stranger things in my fabric stash.  The pieced section of the quilt was made by string piecing some of the silks and brocades from my stash.  The background fabric for this project was the leftover linen blend…

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Crazy Quilt Block Sew-Along

I’m so excited that Sew Can She is having a Crazy Quilt Block Sew-Along! It’s a great excuse to learn the technique, if it’s new to you.  And there are prizes involved from some great places like fat quarter shop, the sewing loft, and fabric worm. Make sure to get involved with this sew-along if…

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Rosalie in Progress

I’ve got a quilt project I should be working on right now.  It’s the Rosalie pattern, which is a super great way to make a quilt with hexies without having to do y-seams. I’m even using it as a stash buster, cutting the large hexies out of all different fat quarters. But for some reason,…

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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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A Thank You

You remember that frog quilt I made as a gift for little baby Desmond? Well, baby Desmond isn’t here yet, but he did send me a super cute thank you note care of his parents. It made all the work on that quilt worth it.  

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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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